Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine

[Klaus Major]

Hi Ray,

> I can try this, setting the stackFileVersion to "2.4".

you could write a little repeat loop which iopens all these "new"  
stacks and
save them in old format:

...
set the stackFileVersion to "2.4"
lock messages ##!!!
repeat for each line i in fld "list of all the new (2.7) stacks with  
full pathnames"
   toplevel stack i
   save stack i
   close stack i
end repeat
...

Not tested, but should work.
(Famous last words ;-)

> Just two quickies.  Why not set it to 2.6.6 which was the last  
> version of MC I used before upgrading?

There is no stackFileVersion "2.6.6" ;-), only stackfileversion "2.4"  
which was used until version 2.7 of Rev
and "2.7" which is used from version 2.7x of Rev. There had been a  
change in the fileformat.

> The other question is, will I find any speed decreases in doing this?

Don't think so.

> I'm thoroughly enjoying my new MacPro quad Intel running 2.7.  I'd  
> hate to loose any of that speed, although I believe all the speed  
> is coming from the app, not the stacks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray Horsley
> Developer, LinkIt! Software

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de