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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ShortCut vs. Boomerang: Opinions?
Keywords: ShortCut Aladdin Boomerang
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Date: 18 Jan 90 02:42:11 GMT
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In article <1990Jan17.091032.14538@hellgate.utah.edu> t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>
>One reason I chose to use Boomerang is because the "rebound" feature works
>much better than in ShortCut.
>
>The other is that it is dynamic in the folder/file/disk menus. It's real handy
>to pull down that menu and see the most receint files in the list and to be
>able to switch thru them with a shortcut.

Along the same lines, I love being able to flip throug directories in
Boomerang with command-keys as opposed to the ugly dialog box having
to be popped up in ShortCut.  If I wanted to take the time to go through
a dialog box, I'd use the one in the SFGet/PutFile!

Ken



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