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From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Coach Professional 3.1
Summary: I have mine.
Keywords: Coach
Message-ID: <575@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:15:36 GMT
References: <3387@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1386@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard.edu
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In article <1386@lakesys.lakesys.com> macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) writes:
>In article <3387@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mberline@jarthur.UUCP (Marty Berliner) writes:
>>Since people have been posting about software upgrades, does anyone have
>>information about Deneba's Coach Professional 3.1?  Their newsletter of July
>>1989 said that it was coming ... but when????
>I just received a postcard from Deneba (postmark Nov. 27, Miami) announcing
>the 3.1 upgrade for Coach Professional.

When I got to work this morning there was an envelope sitting on my
chair with version 3.1 inside.  I installed it and it seems to work
better than the old one.  Things like the "Show Dictionary..." item
now works under MultiFinder without having to switch to the DA layer
first, the thesaurus does look nicer too (just used the phonetic
suggestion to find out how to spell "thesaurus").

I did get one crash of Finder where I had the dictionary window open,
plus several thesaurus windows.  I chose "Quit Coach Pro(tm)" and the
Coach menu went away, but the windows remained.  I tried clicking the
close box of one of the windows and Finder got all upset, died, and
relaunched.

I have never really used the interactive and batch spelling options (I
mainly just use the dictionary and thaurus to look up spellings), so I
don't know whether they are very different.

Conclusion: Spelling Coach Professional 3.1 does exist.

Note: When I got to the personalizing step the first time I ran Coach,
I needed a serial number.  The disks had no serial number, the manual
had no serial number, the disk envelope had no serial number (no
shrink-wrap license either), but the UPS mailing label *did* have an
extra little sticker on it.  I tried that number.  It worked.  Moral:
Never throw away *any* packing materials until you are *sure* you have
all the small parts.


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