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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Dave Sim's Ugly Brother)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Shortcut vs. Boomerang
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.031210.11208@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 03:12:10 GMT
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In article <25250@well.sf.ca.us> mo@well.sf.ca.us (Maurice Weitman) writes:
>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.

Geee... if you took all these posts about SB and SC and replaced "Super-
Boomerang" with "Compactor" and "ShortCut" with "StuffIt" it would just
about sum up my opinions on those two programs as well..  I can't stand
Stuffit and will delete any files uploaded to my board that are not
packed with Compactor.  Compactor is faster and smaller.  Unpacking a Sys7
FDHD image took FORTY-FIVE minutes in the background.  Compactor packed
it in 4 minutes and saved over 200K off Stuffit's "Best" (and was working
in the background the whole time). Why do people use Stuffit at all?

But I digress... back to the point at hand..  Is there anyway to get Super
Boomerang without the Now utilities?  I'm sorry, but $75 mail order is
a little steep, and nothing else in Now sounds interesting or useful.


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