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From: mo@well.sf.ca.us (Maurice Weitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Shortcut vs. Boomerang
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Date: 5 Jun 91 22:50:22 GMT
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But first, I digress...

When Stuffit first surfaced, I paid my shareware fee to Ray Lau,
along with a note thanking him for the program.  Later, I sent
Hiro Yamamoto the fee for Boomerang.  Until Aladdin started
distributing Stuffit, and wanted me to buy Stuffit Deluxe, I
heard nothing from them.  Mr. Yamamoto, on the other hand, sent
me a postcard confirming my registration, then at least one, and
I believe two, diskettes with free upgrades to Boomerang,
including a version of Super Boomerang.  Last week, Mr. Yamamoto
published a cdev to make SB compatible with System 7 and CE
Toolbox 1.6.  He did this on his own, apparently with the
permission of Now.  Here is a man who is both proud of his
product, as he should be, and responsible enough to make it easy
to use it on an ongoing basis.  He is my Hero, pun intended.
I eagerly await the upgrade to Now Utilities, which I believe
will make the lives of all System 7 studly users much nicer.

Now, to compare Super Boomerang with Shortcut, you really should
use them both, as I have.  The feel of SB is very smooth and
seemless.  Shortcut seems clunky and slow.  Its integration with
Stuffit is a nice feature which I don't need. SB has a very nice,
and addictive, hierarchical Open menu, along with other features
that make it indispensible to me.  For the week or so that I was
running System 7 without it, I really felt the loss.

When evaluating software, one should also include consideration
of the attitude and practices of its developer and publisher, and
there's no comparison between the two in this case.  I don't know
what Now was like before Mr. Yamamoto's influence, but they're
tough to beat.
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