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Re: Boomerang 2.0

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From: Mario Herodotus - Digital Custom...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 11:29
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In article <10229@portia.Stanford.EDU>, thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes...
>Last week, I download Boomerang 2.0 to try it out and see if it was worth it.
>I used it a couple of days and was pretty pleased, and then....it stopped
>working.  When I booted up, the Icon had a slash through it.  I tried to 
>access it through the control panel which did not work.  It gave me a message
>like the preference file was damaged.
> 
>What gives?  I am considering downloading it again, but will this happen
>again?  Has the author put a two day expiration date before the program dis-
>ables itself?
> 
>I am running 6.0.4 with Multifinder 6.1b9 on an SE/30 with 5 MB of RAM.
> 
>Thanks in advance,
> 
>---Derek Fong
>fong@cive.stanford.edu
>thewho@portia.stanford.edu

Same thing happened to me on a IIcx, 5Meg, 6.0.4 system, 6.1b9 Multifinder.
I had a feeling it might be INIT CDEV causing the problem.  The reason I say 
this is that just prior to the ICON showing up with the slash I had used INIT 
CDEV to disable boomerang.  I only got two days of use out of it.  If it 
works, it would be worth it, but this is not fun, I may just go back to HFS 
Navigator.

Mario

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From: m_herodotus@coors.dec.com (Mario Herodotus - Digital Customer Support Center (800) 525-6570)
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Subject: Re: Boomerang 2.0
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Date: 17 Mar 90 11:29:20 GMT
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