Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!paz.geology.wisc.edu!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UltraCard Browser & Stacks Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 08:44:22 GMT References: <533@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <7552@ecsvax.UUCP> <13457@super.ORG> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 47 In-reply-to: rminnich@super.ORG's message of 25 Aug 89 17:59:10 GMT In article <13457@super.ORG> rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes: Following amiga rules, ultracard is a good multi-tasking citizen; you can tell it to invoke your favorite editor on scripts, for example, and edit scripts with emacs. And so on. Yes it has gurued on me but what the hell ... it is version 1.11. Give these folks a chance, I dialed up the Intuitive Technologies BBS over the weekend, and downloaded the newest version of the Browser (1.11) plus the stacks supplied with it. After the machine gurued when I clicked on a button in the Help stack, I rebooted and tried again. I clicked on "Programs" in the Control room and got a requestor saying "Ultrabench not found" (whatever Ultrabench is -- the browser didn't come with a README file). Clicking on other buttons in the Control Room crashed the machine. After going through the crash-reboot cycle a few times, I just gave up. At this point I will buy UltraCard only if Intuitive Technologies offers a liberal update policy. I really want to buy this product, but I want it to be at least halfway dependable. In case it matters, I am running on a 2.5 MB A1000 with Dmouse 1.10, FaccII, ARexx 1.10, ConMan 1.3, and jazzbench (I think that's everything). I dumped all the software into a directory on my hard disk and issued "assign ultra: user:ucarddemo". I put the sample stacks in a subdirectory labeled "stacks" as the UCard Browser expected. I'm not sure what else should be expected of me to make the program work properly. --M ------ PERSONAL MESSAGE to Valentin: I tried sending replies to your mail on Friday, but evidently you did not receive them. I just tried sending you another message today (Monday). Let me know if it gets to you. -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM "$16,000! And all he wanted to do was dip us in plaster!"