Thank you for your help once again! The update worked and I'm happily opening my older docs now, from Appleworks 6.2.7 in OSX. Still couldn't figure out how to make Appleworks 6.2.5 open from OS 9.2.2, (but I really don't need to since 6.2.7 is behaving well now.) Is the only way to do this is to change the start-up disk from OS X to OS 9? Is that what you meant, Thad, when you said "double-clicking the icon from OS 9.2.2 evokes V. 6.2.5? Just curious as to how this whole thing works.
Lauren
Wish I knew how it worked: there's probably no money in it anymore, with so much attention currently (and rightfully) on operating systems, but AppleWorks developers are still holy warriors of the first order in my book. So much program, so little memory and cost! =D>
But yeah, that's what I meant. AppleWorks is an application that can open on either operating system (that's what "Carbon" means), and the two versions are just a freaky little fork at the end of the development path to accommodate the new OS. I think the specifically "Carbon" parts decide which components of the program to fire up (and which version number to display) depending on which OS called it.
Classic mode, to Apple's credit, may seem like another complete operating system running simultaneously, but I think the bottom line here is that that isn't *quite* the case. I don't know of any way to go to a "Classic"
desktop and fire up the "Classic" version of a Carbon application.
Thad
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