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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Boomerang? New versions of StuffIt?
Message-ID: <11277@claris.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:55:28 GMT
References: <8420@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Oct1.211114.20136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <1990Oct1.211114.20136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>In article <8420@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>>I have tried an cdev called Boomerang (version 2.0). It seems very useful, 
>>but isn't very reliable. Sometimes its icon is blank in an Open... dialog 
>>box, and when that happens some applications will crash as soon as I try 
>>to do anything. Unfortunately, this includes two applications I use 
>>heavily: Qued 2.09 and Vellum 1.0.
>
>Yeah, I tried Boomerang after seeing it on the favorite INITs/CDEVs
>list of a few people.  However, my random system crashes increased
>fourfold or so.  I eventually had to trash it.  Now things are peachy
>again.  It is really too bad that it is so unstable as it is a great
>little program.

My understanding it that Boomerang is "going commercial" as part of Version
2.0 of the Now Utilities.  They're working really hard to iron out the bugs
it has to bring it up to "commercial quality".  It does help to have a real
QA department have at it and have it go through a serious beta test.

Disclaimer: I used to have a utility as part of the Now Utilities
(MemorySetter), and think the folks at Now are doing a great job of
bring shareware type software up to commercial levels of quality and
support.

-- michael peirce