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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Super Boomerang (it's commercial)
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Date: 18 Jan 91 01:06:54 GMT
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In article <3983@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff
Haferman) writes:
>
>Is Super Boomerang shareware?  If so, is it available via ftp?
>How does it differ from Boomerang?

SuperBoomerang (henceforth SB) is commercial. I got mine free as a registered
user of 2.0. I suggest you try the same. You could also buy Now Utilities to
get it, but Now won't sell SB separately (grr!).

SB has several important changes from Boomerang:
1) SB is accessed via a mini-menu bar along the top of the dialog box. I like
that because there's no sub-menus; you have immediate access to files, folders,
disks.... On the down side, the dialog box becomes a bit taller.
2) SB adds a sub-menu to each program's Open... (or equivelent), containing a
list of files. If you select such a file you never see the Open... dialog box.
It is hard to express how wondeful this is -- it's like trying to explain
Boomerang itself to the uninitiated!
3) SB will (optionally) visually compress filenames so you can see all the
letters in Open... dialog boxes. The names look a bit odd, but I  use long
filenames, so I really like this.

SB is very robust, and I can't live without it. If Now would unbundle it, I'd
buy copies for all my Mac friends. As it is, I find myself trying to explain
why they should use 2.0, and they look at me blankly ("why do I need that"?).

-- Russell
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu