It sure is evil. LOL

    All I can suggest if you *need* to immediatly release your software
is to put a ReadMe file along with it that says to turn off Easy Open &
say that you are working on getting rid of the conflict.

2nd, MacOS Easy Open I heard was updated for OS 8.5 - You might want to
do some beta testing with your program, with people who have MacOS 8.5,
then try it with people who have 8.1, 8.0 & 7.6 to see if they can
reproduce the problem not just under System 7 or 8.0,or 8.1  but see if
MacOS 8.5 fixes the problem, If MacOS 8.5 fixes the problem like I
suspect it does, your programs system requirements will just have to go
up. I heard Apple was doing something with Easy Open in OS 8.5

Then do this:

sysreq = SYSTEM(_sysVers)

LOCAL FN displayDialog
   'put your dialog code here
'(window code here)  
PRINT "Sorry, blah blah program cannot run under"
PRINT   " this system, you need MacOS 7.6 or higher"
PRINT
'at this point either put a Quit button or 
do
until mouse(_down)  '& put a message saying to click the mouse   
END FN

LOCAL FN Splash
   'put your splash code here
END FN

IF sysreq < 760  THEN FN displayDialog
IF sysreq > 760 THEN FN Splash

-Brian

PS: I'd be happy to test out your program for you, I am getting 8.5 very
soon (It should be in the mail already)