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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Boomerang vs Directory Assistance
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Date: 25 Apr 91 18:28:04 GMT
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I prefer Boomerang, because it solves the most serious lack
(to me) of the "getfile" and "putfile" dialog boxes -- no simple
way to access various important files or folders. It does a gorgeous
job, too -- it's the singe most useful utility I have.

Norton is working on making Directory Assistance compatible with
Boomerang (according to a tech. support person I spoke to at Norton).

There is a RUMOR that renaming Dir. Asst. so it loads before
Boomerang solves the problem. I have no idea if it's true!

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

Details:
Directory Assistance is an init included with Norton Utilities.
It modfies the "SFGetFile" dialog box to view files by date,
and much other similar useful-sounding stuff. Take this with
a grain of salt, as I've not used it!

Boomerang is a cdev included with "NOW Utilities" (or download
Boomerang 2.0 from sumex-aim and send in your shareware fee!).
It modifies "SFGetFile" and "SFPutFile" to add menus of
recently-accessed or user-"installed" files and folders.
It also allows you to instantly open files by adding a sub-menu
of files to the Open... command. It does other useful things
as well, including first-rate "rebound", searching for files,
creating new folders, etc. Boomerang is an amazingly useful
utility.