Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!ames!elroy!gryphon!jspear From: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: McSink6.5 Keywords: slow Message-ID: <16746@gryphon.COM> Date: 14 Jun 89 10:11:11 GMT References: <32896@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 36 In article <32896@bu-cs.BU.EDU> gasp@bucsd.bu.edu (Isaac Kohane) writes: > >Hi, > > the last version of McSink that I used was a zippy little DA. >When my hard disk drive had a generalized seizure and lost its soul I >had to download a new version: 6.5. On my MacPlus the DA runs with >responsiveness that reminds me of bygone days text editting over 300 >baud lines. Is this what I can expect with the commercial version (Vantage) >of this DA? I'm running Vantage version 1.1 on my MacPlus-like machine and I'm happy with its speed compared to earlier McSinks. It also corrects some annoying bugs, like McSink's menu wouldn't disappear when I click on the Versaterm window, leaving McSink command-keys active - Vantage fully deactivates itself if not in the front window. Vantage adds still more features to McSink (spell checker is handy, I haven't really used the macros or the user functions yet). I highly recommend Vantage as one of those essential utilities (along with Suitcase II, QuickKeys, DiskTop and a few others) that no Mac should leave home without. For a new wrinkle on pop-up editors, see Andrew Welch's Flashwrite. It is an init/cdev that brings up a (very) simple text editor when you hit some user-definable key combination, even from within a modal dialog box where DAs are not available. Very limited editing commands (not even a search/replace). Max file size is 32K. But fast and convenient. It's ftp-able from sumex. -Jon -- ----- Jon L Spear: jspear@gryphon.COM !gryphon!jspear gryphon!jspear@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov "With computers we can make billions of mistakes every second!"