No way. However, if all you want to do is count line numbers then you should be able to do it through Apple script. If he is still up to scratch on general programming concepts then Apple script shouldn't be that hard to learn, so I wouldn't go installing windows just yet.
Cheers, Ben. On 12/10/2011, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Hi guys. > This is not a sales announcement or anything. My husband wrote this program > for me which right now runs under Windows. He used to write custom programs > for small businesses for both the Apple 2 and the PC. > > I got tired of counting lines and finding page numbers in brf files. As a > proofreader, I have to do reports and turn that information into > transcribers. > > I'm not wild about installing Windows on my Mac just to run this program. > Excuse my ignorance here, but if he were to rewrite the program like it was > going to run on the old Apple 2, would it run under Lion? I know that may > sound weird, but if he had a 2 E here he would be able to write programs for > it, so I thought I would find out if that knowledge could be used to rewrite > this program without a lot of trouble. If not, I can either put Windows on > here or do this some other way. > > Regards, > Gigi > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
