Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!duke!hsg
From: hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: DiskTools Plus comments
Keywords: DiskTools Plus, DA Finder replacements
Message-ID: <11424@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 88 04:57:36 GMT
Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC
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Posted: Sun Mar 27 23:57:36 1988

I recently purchased an upgrade of Battery Pack DA's to
DiskTools Plus, mainly to get a hold of the Finder replacement
"DiskTools II" which has received a lot of praise from different
Mac magazines.

Unfortunately, the latest version of this DA as of 3/27/88 is
MulfiFinder incompatible, which greatly reduced its usefulness
(at least for me). The launch facility, which allows you to
launch any document or group of documents or application under
the normal finder, doesn't work at all under MultiFinder.

Other comments are that the search by date option only allows
searches before, after, or on a given date but not between
two given dates, which often leads to excessively large matches.
There is a "Trash" option that allows you to delete files, but
the default (carried out by hitting Return) is to wipe out files,
a very dangerous way to do things.

The upgrades to the other DA's that come with the package (e.g.,
the Calendar, Scientific Calculator, etc.) are minimal improvements
over what already existed in the BatteryPack collection.

Conclusion: if you like to transfer to different documents or
applications under MultiFinder, this DA needs at least one
more upgrade before being really useful.