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Article #10035Re: ShortCut vs. Boomerang: Opinions?
From: Robert Wallen
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 21:41
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 21:41
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In article <13977@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>open or save dialog boxes. I've been using the Beta versions of Boomerang
>for quite some time, and am inclined to go with it's release version because
>the author has made it available to the public for trial via shareware.
I used 1.0b7 for a while, but it has one really nasty bug that made it almost
useless to me. Using Think C 4.0, TMON 2.8.1 in 'strict discipline' mode
causes SFGETFILE to drop dead with a 'Bus Error' in a routine which belongs to
Boomerang (MacNosy identified the symbols for me)
>Boomerang's occasional wipe-itself-out bomb in beta -- the only annoying
>thing is having to build up the list of Reserved Folders again; I've
For me, rebooting is a pain as well. Usually, the 'Bus Error' has mashed
things enough for 'ExitToShell' to not work anymore...
>understood from the net that this happens less frequently in the release
>version, which I haven't gotten yet), and b) compatibility with particular
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Me neither. Does anyone know whether the release version suffers from this
problem before I try to send off the cash (not a trivial thing from Oz)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!rob From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ShortCut vs. Boomerang: Opinions? Keywords: ShortCut Aladdin Boomerang Message-ID: <2940@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> Date: 19 Jan 90 21:41:14 GMT References: <13977@fluke.COM> Reply-To: rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen) Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 21