Existing users, 
wow - straka1
Well, where I work (a relatively anal-retentive place), Wintel is the norm with enterprise contracts for major PC apps. I have a Mac running Panther, and I'm stuck pretty much with what I've got. I have to pick my battles carefully.I'm stuck with the old MS Office written in ~Carbon (V.X?) that mungs filenames longer than 32 characters. I get a *lot* of files from coworkers that have more than 32 characters. So this app may help me out, too.
Other uses? There are odd times when you have that old, but well-performing app that you may need in a pinch. I've had to rescue ancient MS Word files that Word no longer reads on a current Mac OS (current Word doesn't read, versions of Word that will read won't run on any practical OS - bad Microsoft), but I can still fire up my circa 1988 Pagemaker (ancient, but well-bahaved 68K code running under Classic) and open up files of that vintage and resurrect the data.
So this utility is useful for potentially many applications. Don't dis the thought.
Friday, December 30 2005 @ 06:25 AM PST
wow - FinePeter
As one of the authors of this simple utility let me defend its reason. If it was of no use as you suggest, it would not have been downloaded (so far) 130 times so while you are correct that users ideally will move on to OSX, the facts say that many still share their work environments with OS9 users.This facilitates that situation and since it was created FOR OSX users in the first place your comments really don't make a lot of sense.
-Peter
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