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Article #43428

Re: Boomerang 1.3

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From: Scott R. Anderson
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 15:04
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In article <203@visix.UUCP> jeff@visix.UUCP (Jeff Barr) writes:
>In article <15931@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen) writes:
>>A note to Mr. Hiroaki Yamamoto (author of Boomerang) and potential users.
>>I have tried the INIT on my system (Mac II, System Release 6.0.2, Multifinder)
>>and find it to be a nice utility.  However (rats!) It is broken by Word 4.0
>>in the OPEN... dialogue.  Note that it is NOT broken by Word in the SAVE AS...
>>dialogue.
>
>It's not really broken, there's a dialog item that partially covers it in
>Word's OPEN... dialog.  You might notice that if you click near the right edge
>of the dialog you can bring the Boomerang pop-up menu to the top.

This is also true of Excel.  A minor inconvenience, I feel; this is a great
program!

However, a feature that Boomerang *really* needs is the ability to manually
remove folders from its list.  Otherwise, it holds those folders open and
you can't do things like delete them.

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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Boomerang 1.3
Keywords: Boomerang, MS Word, INIT
Message-ID: <4106@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 89 15:04:57 GMT
References: <15931@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <203@visix.UUCP>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
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Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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