🚀 go-pugleaf

	Greetings. I am writing this about the EditSCH program that was
	recently posted in sci.electronics. No, it's not a flame about
	wasting the bandwidth with a global post instead, of what should
	have been done: ask who wants it and mail it to only those people.

	I consider this to be a "review" of the program.

	Basicly: it sucks. There are more bugs in this program than in
	most public domain programs that I have seen. I don't see how
	posting of a program of this low quality can help with the poor
	opinion people have about ShareWare. Here is my list of what I
	hope I don't see in Rev 3.0 and why I think this program is not
	worth a dime:

	(I ran this on my 486/25, SVGA, 200MB 11ms drive)

	#0 Screen update sooooo ssssllloooowwwww (even on my machine)
	#1 SETUP -> GRID -> 0,0 -> divide error (dumps you to dos!!!!!)
	#2 FILE -> CLEAR -> NO (save) 
			    Why does the program take the time to
			    redraw the screen if it will be next cleared?
	#3 FILE -> LOAD -> any .SCH
			    Why does the program not give an option to either
			    append or erase old and load new file?
	#4 COMPONENT -> SAVE 
			    Pull-down menu is in the way of a message in
			    the opened window... 
	#5 SETUP -> DIRECTORIES -> 
			    MY MAJOR COMPLAINT: Check the validity of the
			    directory! If it does not exist, this program
			    will dump in 4 different ways!
	#6 DRAW -> BUS -> (click to make a diagonal buss) -> EDIT -> I get
	a gray bar in the pull-down menu! -> DELETE -> (click on buss) 
	depending on angle, there may be dots left on the screen!) -> DRAW ->
	I get a "Delet" on the first line of the menu (it's from the next
	pull-down menu to the right....))
	#7 FILE -> QUIT -> YES -> CANCEL 
			    Selecting CANCEL should not exit you out, it should
			    return you to the drawing screen. 
	#8 FILE -> QUIT -> YES (select OK without selecting a filename and
	    		    having a non-existent subdirectory in #5 (see 
			    above) BLOWS YOU AWAY!
	#9 COMPONENT -> LOAD -> OK (wrong subdirectory in #5) I get one of
	3 things after this one:
	   o	COMPLETE freeze - requires power off/on
	   o	Shows some kind of red menu for 1ms and shows me the LOAD
		window - when I click on anything, it just hides it and returns
		me to the drawing window.
	   o	Kills the drawing - I need to redraw (slow and a general pain)

	Now, the purpose of a Schematic entry program is to make matters
	simpler. This program is not only full of bugs, it's SLOW, it's
	unreliable, it's a pain to work with - quite frankly, I prefer
	paper and pencil.

	Take care.

	P.S. I hope the author of this program has some sense and fixes
	these errors. A word of advice: Don't use BASIC for the display
	routines... get some real assembly programmers to do a good job.
	Even better, buy the excellent ShareWare assembler, A86, and recode
	the screen routines with it!
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