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From: eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Qued-M 2.09 (was QUED-M 2.07 & System 6.0.7...)
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.185602.3441@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 90 18:56:02 GMT
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In article <11709@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>I have not tried it with system 6.0.7, but if Paragon says it works, I
>believe them. Qued works well with 6.0.5; it's the most reliable Macintosh
>program I've used.

I could not let this pass.  I have had more problems with QUED/M than with any
other major-label non-PD software that I use.  And I have tried to live
with several versions - I am now on 2.09 and some of the problems have still
not been fixed.  Just a few that I can remember off the top of my head:

Printing via SuperLaserSpool fails unless one of the header options is
enabled.  Sometimes it fails anyway.  Sometimes it bombs.

The catalog window fails to display existing text files that other programs can
readily locate and open (yes, they have filetype = 'TEXT').
 
QUED/M sometimes gets into a mode where it seems to suck up a lot of CPU
cycles, even though it is not doing anything: no windows open, not even in
the front MultiFinder layer.  How do I know?  Other programs bog down (Pyro
goes into slow motion stop-frame animation, for example).  Quit QUED/M and
everything is back to normal.

There were other problems that I cannot recall right now.

On a couple of occasions, I have called Paragon to report my problems.  The
folks I spoke to were courteous, and gave me the usual advice about trying
to identify conflicts with INIT's, etc.  They sold me update disks with
newer versions (at a very reasonable $10 price).  But the bugs remain.

I cope by only using QUED/M when I need the powerful text-manipulation
features that I cannot get from my other text editing programs.
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
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