Re: HCGS Runtime player ...

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> >The concern with a modified HyperCard player would be that it not be taken
> >as the official release. A cure is to rename it to something like
> >"ModifiedHCGSruntime.shk" and include a bried RuntimeMod.txt in the .shk
> >file outlining the mods.
> 
> That name wouldn't work in ProDOS.  ;-)
> 

     True; but, then, it does not need to. The idea is to have any modified
HCGS runtime clearly labeled as such on the download sites. (Upon being
downloaded and transferred, the .shk filename would be shortened by a receiving
Apple II running ProDOS.)  The name of the unShrinked file would be ProDOS
compatible.



> But seriously, if the runtime was available in the Big Red
> Computer Club library as HyperCard Player, then in the
> Shareware Solutions II and ftp servers as HyperCard Player
> (and I think the Mac version of the runtime is called
> HyperCard Player), it would not make much sense to
> rename it and cause confusion.

     The suggestion is not to rename the file itself; it is to rename the .shk
version of the file as maintained on a download site. Once the file is
unShrinked, you have the readme file as a reminder that the particular
HyperCard Player is a modified version.



> No one is going to mistake the runtime for the full
> HyperCard.  The full HyperCard comes on half a dozen
> disks and requires a hard disk to install to.

     The need is to descriminate between the standard runtime and modified
runtimes. These files could be fairly close in terms of size. Correct labeling
of the .shk file on download sites plus the included readme file will inform
the user and make it easy to maintain modified versions of runtime.



Rubywand