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From: samuels@halibut.nosc.mil (Lawrence J. Samuels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Shortcut vs. Boomerang
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Date: 2 Jun 91 16:21:44 GMT
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I use Shortcut.  Aladdin Systems was wonderful enough to send us 
a SYstem 7 version the week of May 13 - what timing!  The Sys7
version is 1.5.

I have mixed feeling about it - mostly because I've turned
on their 'Bounce Back' feature that keeps you at the same place
in a long list the next time you open an 'Open' dialog box.
This feature is useful but slow.  There are a number of good tools
to Shortcut - it retains a list of recently visited folders so you
can get back to them easily, as well as letting you create your own
lists of commonly  used folder/files/volumes.

It's lets you trash (delete) files, and now there's the feature
of writing 1s/0s over a file to really delete it.  If you own
Stuffit (Deluxe, I think) you can use Shortcut meny items to stuff/
unstuff on the fly.

Nice product but I feel about it the way I do about Stuffit Deluxe - lots
of features, but most that I don't use.  Someone else should add more positive
comments than I....

Larry Samuels
samuels@nosc.mil