Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!zeus!s64421 From: s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Directory Freedom 3.50a Keywords: slight bug Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 12:52:30 GMT References: <1990Oct31.164429.17547@cbnewsk.att.com> Lines: 27 rabeck@cbnewsk.att.com (ronald.a.beck) writes: >A quick word about Directory Freedom Ver 3.50a, by Gordon Haff. It is in >Simtel20, under pd1: as df350a.zip. It is stated as >"best hack of PC Mag's DR, CO, RN". I use DR, and tried DF on that same recommendation. >First off, it is good. I have been checking many hacks and trying to see >which I prefer. It's terrible. I loaded it up, ran it, and my machine crashed. Seems I didn't have somebody-or-other's list program on board. I found some fix mentioned in the documentation, tried again... OK. Let's view a file.. Pg Dn.. It seems the screen is 25 lines long, but this prog drops 26 on random but common occasions. I.e. you miss a line in the view. I can put up with limitations or _obscure_ bugs, but to me, it seemed that the whole thing was poorly tested and hurriedly cobbled together. I did without. -- Regards, Ron House. (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au) (By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)