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From: Peter McCallum
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 03:10

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David J Richardson <borad@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> DON'T get a Umax. Their hardware may be OK, but their software and 
> support is below woeful.
> 
> For example, they just released Vistascan 4.0. It's 130 megs to 
> download. Do so, install and I get 30 megs of actual files (still 20 meg
> too much considering how little is provided). Worse, it installed 
> version 3.5.2 -- and I already had 3.5.4 from before this!
> 
> Though at least they seemed to have fixed their FTP servers; they used
> to the least reliable ones in the world.

I agree wholeheartedly with you about the website and ftp access at
Umax. It has always been bad and nobody seems to be working to improve
it. I spent about 3 hours downloading the 21MB of software for my S6e
the other day, what a pain. 

That's a pity because they seem to make pretty good scanners and the
software that runs them is better than most. The user interface is
ghastly however.

Peter

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Subject: Re: What budget scanner?
From: petermccallum@REMOVE.THIS.mac.com (Peter McCallum)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:10:25 +1000
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