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From: shulman@sdr.slb.com (Jeff Shulman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing Envelopes and Mailings
Keywords: envelopes mailer mail database
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.131127.553@sdr.slb.com>
Date: 10 Oct 89 13:11:27 GMT
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siegman@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:

>...I'll nonetheless take the
>opportunity to put on record that the KiwiEnvelopes! 3 DA (Kiwi
>Software, 805-685-4031) is an absolutely superb small tool...

I'd like to rebut that statement.  I too bought KiwiEnvelopes! 3.0 to
do my envelopes.  As a developer using MPW I am also using MultiFinder
6.1b7.  It seems KiwiEnvelopes is NOT compatible with this version in
2 respects: 1) Their registration dialog causes the Mac to crash; and 2)
the Preview feature will also crash the Mac.

What really got me upset is that they *are* aware of this fact but they have
NO intention of fixing it until the "release" MultiFinder.  I find this
attitude deplorable in a software vendor!  *I* have had NO problems with
all other software running MF 6.1b7.  If any of *my* software did not run
with MF 6.1b7 I would *immediately* investigate the situation to see if it
was my problem or a bug in the beta software.  Kiwi didn't even want to
investigate that it just *may* be *their* problem!  Their whole attitude
turned me completely off!

KiwiEnvelopes! 3 seems to also "lose" its registration number on a fairly
regular basis necessitating running regular Finder to reinstall it.  *This*
is the problem that finally drove me to find alternatives.

I just bought MacEnvelopes which (although an app, not a DA) seems to work
just fine and has much more mailing list and envelope/label support (i.e.
it will print sheet labels and both label and envelope sizes are customizable)
than Kiwi does.  There is absolutely no copy protection/registration number
either.

                                                        Jeff

As usual, these are my personal opinions.

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