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From: sjs16@itri.bton.ac.uk (Simon John Shurville)
Subject: Re: VisualWorks 2.5 Released!
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In article <macgremd-131095154347@ck5121gm45b.open.ac.uk>
macgremd@bean.open.ac.uk (malcolm macgregor) writes:

> What's a headless smalltalk app? What we would like is the capability to
> produce stand alone applications easily. We would also like them to
> communicate with each other (Nothing complex, just like MS Word can
> communicate with MacDraw via cutting and pasting). Will 2.5 help us do such
> things? I keep hearing
> about upgrade packs, could someone put a list of them up here?

I agree. My 'desire path' points to a one stop command called 'make an
application' but I'd also like to be able to communicate with standard
products such as Word from within my application. Perhaps this second
wish is peculiar to academics and HCI researchers? But maybe not. Are
PP looking at the open doc standard?

