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From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ShortCut vs. Boomerang: Opinions?
Keywords: ShortCut Aladdin Boomerang
Message-ID: <2940@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 19 Jan 90 21:41:14 GMT
References: <13977@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <13977@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>open or save dialog boxes.  I've been using the Beta versions of Boomerang
>for quite some time, and am inclined to go with it's release version because
>the author has made it available to the public for trial via shareware.

I used 1.0b7 for a while, but it has one really nasty bug that made it almost
useless to me.  Using Think C 4.0, TMON 2.8.1 in 'strict discipline' mode 
causes SFGETFILE to drop dead with a 'Bus Error' in a routine which belongs to
Boomerang (MacNosy identified the symbols for me)

>Boomerang's occasional wipe-itself-out bomb in beta -- the only annoying
>thing is having to build up the list of Reserved Folders again; I've

For me, rebooting is a pain as well.  Usually, the 'Bus Error' has mashed 
things enough for 'ExitToShell' to not work anymore...

>understood from the net that this happens less frequently in the release
>version, which I haven't gotten yet), and b) compatibility with particular
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Me neither.  Does anyone know whether the release version suffers from this
problem before I try to send off the cash (not a trivial thing from Oz)