[G4] Still using OS 9.1 on my G4-400 mhz.

[John Baltutis]

On 12/03/05, Carol <java_j at macosx.com> wrote:
> James Asherman wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Sy wrote:
>>>
>>> **What I'm trying to get a sense of is that suppose
>>> I'm using a new OSX capable Broswer and want to cut
>>> and paste some text from the browser into one of my
>>> Classic (OS 9.1 apps) documents. Can I do that without
>>> any problem  like my using a very old Microsoft Works
>>> 3.0  app. which is about15 years old but runs fine on 9.1?
>
> I think you are out of luck here.  If you want to cut and paste text
> into a document, you must first be able to open the document.  If you
> are booted into OSX to use a new browser, you may not be able to open
> the OS 9 document.  It might work, and it might not.  My guess is it
> won't work without some new software built for OSX.

Not so. You can be in OS X and running Classic apps simultaneously. Copy &
paste work across the boundaries. See my earlier post.

> If you boot into OS 9 and open your document, you will not be able to
> use the OSX browsers.

True, but you boot into OS X and open your document via Classic.