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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: geoWizard
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.044455.5811@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 04:44:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.203635.28312@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin) writes:


>Has anyone had any experience with this new piece of software called
>geoWizard? Any impressions?

I've just (this last week) purchased geoWizard.  What it is is a utility
that installs itself in your system, and hides, transparent to the system,
until you evoke it by pressing both buttons on the mouse (or, if you use a
joystick, a keyboard/button combination).  When you invoke it, which you
can do from within any applicatin, it saves the state of the system to the
REU.  Then, you can do things like Run a DA, echo a copy of the screen to
the printer, reboot GEOS, exit to the desktop, or (most notably) run
another application.  If you run an application, you return to the
application from whence you called geoWizard, everything intact.  So
therefore you could do something like run geoPaint from within geoWrite,
without having to exit Write first.

Also incuded on the disk are a few other goodies, like the MiniDesTop, a
DA that allows you to copy, scratch, and rename files, and a screen dump
utility (runnable only from within geoWizard) that dumps the screen to
either a photo scrap or a geoPaint file.

The programming is excellent, as one would expect since it is written by
none less than Jim Collette.  I myself am very happy with geoWizard.

>Does it work in 80-column mode? (For that matter, is it compatible
>at all with GEOS 128?) Is it freely available? If not, how much does it
>cost?

geoWizard runs under both GEOS 64 and GEOS 128, the latter in both 40 and
80 column mode (indeed, the screen dump feature includes some special
support for the 80 column screen).  It is not freeware; it is available
for $16.50 from:

Comm-Plex Software
6782 Junction Road
Pavilion, NY  14525-9755

-Rob Knop
rknop@gap.cco.caltech.edu  [I think]