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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZCOMM is very buggy
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Date: 22 Apr 88 19:00:18 GMT
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In article <2598@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
== 
== After reading the docs on ZCOMM, I thought that it looked liked a very
== promising program - not so.  

You haven't given it a chance.  Chuck's software is "UNIX-oriented". 
I.e., the user must already be an expert to use it.  However, it is
really a suberb program.  It's not "user-friendly" like ProComm, etc.

== Now, about the "documentation": whoever wrote this seems to have a very
== large chip on his shoulder - the tone is defensive in the extreme and the
== poor organization just about renders the entire 150k manual useless.  The
== first four chapters are spent bragging about what a great product this is
== and why you should register it.  The rest is basically a scattershot
== description of minute details of various commands.  Why I would spend $40
== for a typeset copy of this tripe I can't fathom.
== 

Again, it's UNIX-like documentation.  I purchased ZCOMM's big brother,
YAM, and have barely learned how to use it.  It does what I want but I'm
sure that I don;t use more than 1-2% of its capabilities.  No question,
it needs a detailed tutorial.


== ... I will never buy any product from Omen Technology.

Well, that'll mean that you will be missing something pretty fine.  As I
said, Chuck's stuff tends to be for experts, so perhaps the rest of the
world should indeed avoid it.