[svlug] Mappery breakthrough : UPDATE

[Marc MERLIN]

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:01:53PM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> But under CXO, MetroGuide usurped the whole icon, on which it became the
> only choice. In order to invoke Topo, I have to tunnel interminably
> through a long sequence of opaque Windows menus, hoping eventually to hit
> the .exe; and what's worse, yes, I really *have* to. CXO won't let me
> paste the path to it into the window that invokes it. <gnash, grind>

Mapsource is one of the worst windows apps I have ever seen.
Getting it to work well enough without blowing up as soon as it gets
slightly upset, is hard enough on windows.
I got it to work on vmware after blood sweat and tears, and got nowhere when
I gave it a quick shot under crossover office

Marc
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