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Re: Tax software?

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From: Douglas N. Surber
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:44
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In <jtwarden-080193213049@mac2.chem.rpi.edu> jtwarden@rpi.edu (Joseph Warden) writes:
> 
>Remarkable! MacInTax never did THAT before. SO....Mr. Surber, if an
>humble chemist can use this program without despair, I would meekly
>suggest perhaps you might need to consult the manual next time. :-) :-)

Real Mac Users don't read manuals!  That's for poor dumb DOS dweebs. :-)

I have no complaints about MacInTax prior to the '91 version.  But it was
owned by a different company then.  The '91 version was the first version
from ChipSoft.  Given the obviously high quality of the program in previous
incarnations, ChipSoft must have worked pretty hard to hose things up in
just a few months.

As for specific problems, I had only one, whenever I changed a value in a 
certain fields, the program bombed.  Thus to do what-ifs I had to reenter
all the data multiple times, correctly.  This was more than annoying.  The
only field that I remember for sure that caused this problem was filing
status.  Only one bug, yes, but it bit me over and over and over.



--
Douglas Surber             "Would you rather debug at
Lockheed                    compile time or run time?"
Houston, TX                      --Michael B. Feldman
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