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From: eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Super Boomerang
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.145551.26247@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 14:55:51 GMT
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In article <49462@etlcom.etl.go.jp> michel@etl.go.jp (Michel Pasquier) writes:
>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?
>
> Super Boomerang, currently version 2.0.1, is the commercial version of
>Boomerang, and is sold as one of NOW Utilities.
> I believe the last version of Boomerang is 2.0.B9 and that it is the
>same init - though Super Boomerang might be more documented.
>
> NOW Utilities is a very nice package btw. It includes also an init called
>NOW Menus which happens to be the commercial version of HierDA, and some
>others like an alarm clock, an application/DA/file launcher (a la OnCue),
>an init manager, a screen locker, and a few others. There is also a bonus
>application to customize the layout of your desktop etc.

I am currently running Boomerang version 2.0.2, and I have seen mention
of a version 2.1, but have never seen it.  Boomerang was offered as
shareware originally, but the author apparently sold the product to
Now Software, which markets an enhanced version of the product as
SuperBoomerang.  The commercially distributed product has a different
user interface.  All the menus now drop from a menubar that gets added to
the top of the Standard File selection dialog.  Recently accessed files
appear in (and can be selected from) an hierarchical menu that SB attaches
to the "Open..." menu item in most applications.  There are some other
new gongs and whistles, as well.

Recently, I ordered Now Utilities, primarily to obtain SuperBoomerang.
But I have not used it much.  I got quite a few bombs after installing
it (along with some of the other Now Utility INITs).  Don't know yet
what caused the problems - it may not have been SB - but a report has been
filed with Now Software.  I have gone back to using (non-super) Boomerang
until I find out what was happening.
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
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