Apple's TextEdit in Panther - OK with 10.2.6?

[George Nospam]

Greetings!

I read an intriguing and possibly wonderful thing about a new version of
TextEdit that comes with Panther in MacInTouch on Friday:

[url]http://www.macintouch.com/mosxpantherpre01.html#jul18[/url]

Basically, it opens and saves MS Word X format documents, i.e.,
something like icWord does. This might solve a terrible problem I have
involving opening mixed English/Cyrillic or English/Central European
language documents created in Word on the PC using Unicode fonts, which
can't be read in Word X. If you want more information about this
problem, see

[url]http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/WontDisplayOrPrint.htm[/url]

I'm not a developer, nor a particularly early user under os X, so I'm
not anxious to install Panther in order to get this feature in TextEdit,
which I'd dearly like to try out. So I have two questions for people
already using Panther:

1) If you boot into 10.2.6, does the Panther TextEdit launch and appear
to work okay? Or is it limited to 10.3?

2) If it DOES work, would any kind soul be willing to email it to me so
I can try it out and see if it solves this problem? Not sure of the
legality of this, but I don't consider it morally wrong, on your end or
mine; I will certainly buy Panther at my earliest opportunity, probably
within a month of release.

Thanks! My real email address is gfowler AT indiana DOT edu.

George Fowler

[Tom Harrington]

In article <nospam-2BE033.12503919072003@news.usenetserver.com>,
George Nospam <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

> 1) If you boot into 10.2.6, does the Panther TextEdit launch and appear
> to work okay? Or is it limited to 10.3?
>
> 2) If it DOES work, would any kind soul be willing to email it to me so
> I can try it out and see if it solves this problem? Not sure of the
> legality of this, but I don't consider it morally wrong, on your end or
> mine; I will certainly buy Panther at my earliest opportunity, probably
> within a month of release.

Actually, the NDAs that developers must agree to in order to have
Panther right now would prevent them from even answering your first
question.

Speaking in general terms, though: If Panther's TextEdit even runs in
Jaguar, the MS Word handling is almost certainly not available.

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