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From: julian@riacs.ARPA (Julian E. Gomez)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Warning about More
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 19:28:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 19:28:18 1986
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Reply-To: julian@hydra.UUCP (Julian E. Gomez)
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> If you decide to buy More, be careful, it is very buggy.  Myself and
> two of my friends all had discs trashed by the program.  In my case
> I was simply printing out a moderate size chart (about 3 pages) when
> the screen turned into rows of zebras -- the floppy on which the
> More program was on had to be reformatted.  The people of Living
> Video Text have not returned any of my calls over the past two
> weeks.  My other two friends lost their hard discs, one an Apple
> HD-20, the other a SCSI drive while doing other operations.  We each
> bought the More product from different computer dealers and all of
> us were using unmodified Mac Pluses.
> 
> -- 
> David Whiteman,
> University of California, San Diego 
> 
> The America Cup, don't leave Perth without it.

I've been using More for more than a month and haven't found a single
bug in it yet, although I haven't tried what David was doing.  My
documents have ranged in size from 1 to 20 pages.  I'm running on a
Mac+ with a DF20.

There is a bug I found using More but it's Apple's fault.  By now
everyone has heard of the problem with setting keyboard repeat to Off
-- the next time you boot keyboard repeat is back on even though the
control panel says it's off.  So you can get around this by explicitly
turning it off each time you boot (an obvious pain in the ass; it's
easier to just set it to Long).  Turns out that if you do have it set
to off and have rebooted, then More will hang when you use the scroll
bars, either X or Y bar using any of the scroll mechanisms. If keyboard
repeat is set to anything else, or if you have explicitly set it to
off, the bug will not show. Living Videotext agreed that this was an
Apple bug, which didn't surprise me.

I don't know about them not calling back because whenever I've called
they immediately transfer me to a Tech Rep.
-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	(julian@riacs) (...decvax!decwrl!julian@riacs)