It more likely means that Readiris is a Cocoa application, which is defined by Apple as follows: "The Cocoa application environment is designed specifically for Mac OS X-only native applications. " Apple also says, "The Carbon APIs can be used to write Mac OS X applications that also run on previous versions of the Mac OS (8.1 or later)." Cheers! Charles At 11:39 PM -0700 11/30/02, Guy Algot wrote: >On 11/30/02 11:16 PM, "Murray E. Milligan" <railfan at escape.ca> wrote: > >> I was checking out the Readiris webpage for their OS X version of Readiris. >> It says in part, "Readiris runs native on Mac OS X systems". >> >> Does that mean it runs in the Classic environment in OS X? If not, what does >> it mean please, I'm still a neophyte to OS X. > >No, it means it is a Carbon/Cocoa application. It will run under whichever >system you are booted from, either 9 or X. Although if you want to use it in >both systems, they recommend that you run the installer under each system. > >Later, >Guy > >-- >Guy Algot, Solutions Specialist >Edmonton, Alberta >(780) 974-8538 >