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Re: VirtSpace (mini -review)

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From: KIENENBERGER MIKE L
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:47
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In article <1992Sep12.011232.15694@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes...
> 
>This is one neat App.  Do you have 12 Stuart windows open  
>on 5 different hosts?  Does it take a minute to find the  
>lastest Edit window you were working on?  Do you often have  
>FrameMaker, Diagram, and Adobe Illustrator all running with  
>a hoard of windows each.If you are the sort of person who  
>has 6 different apps open all the time, and are constantly  
>rummaging around trying to find the window that you were  
>working on; if you are the sort of person who wishes he had  
>a wall instead of a monitor; if your screen looks like your  
>desk, with only 3 square inches of grey background visible  
>most of the time, then shell out your thirty bucks and get  
>VirtSpace
> 
>VirtSpace allows you to create a virual screen arbitrarily  
>larger than the real screen, and spread out apps all over  
>the place.  So you can have one corner where you are  
>working on backup scripts and testing them, another corner  
>where your default file viewer and mail box lives, another  
>corner where you are compiling and testing xntpd, and the  
>fourth corner where you have terminal sessions onto other  
>hosts.
> 
>The interface is fairly easy to master, however I am having  
>to change how I organize my screen.  Often clicking on an  
>active icon makes one of that apps windows the key window,  
>but that window isn't on the screen.  This was a bit  
>mystifying at first, but I'm adapting quickly.
> 
>The authors are very responsive to suggestions, and  
>questions about the program.
> 
>In the space of half a day VirtSpace has gone from a new  
>toy to an absolute necessity.
> 
>Highly recommended.  

At the risk of sounding cheap, what's the difference between this
and the free version (no version number just C 1992) given out
a few months ago? [Don't get me wrong. This program was worth paying
shareware fees...I'm just feeling cheap this month after paying tuition.]

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-Mike Kienenberger                       FXMLK@ALASKA           (BITNet)
 Academic Computing                      FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet)
 University of Alaska-Fairbanks
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