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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: case conluded;  MacZap is useful (was Re: MacZap not useful)
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Date: 8 Jun 88 18:22:40 GMT
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Well, a few comments: while MacZap is fairly intuitive to a person who's
used a Mac to some degree, I've had to deal with poor, frantic business
users who are pulling their hair out trying to read the directions and
figure them out.  I think the documentation COULD use some more work, at
least for that segment of MacZap's market.

As to MacZap blowing up, I had it do the same thing, but I have an idea why
it occured -- can anyone verify this (it's HFS Restore 5.0)?  I was running
HFS Restore from a floppy with only a little disk space on it (maybe 25K),
and after running over the disk to recover, it would end up with a blank
window of files which could be recovered -- but with a scroll-able scroll
bar.  First attempt to scroll the "empty" window would cause a system crash
(ID=02).  Talking with an aquaintance who swear by MacZap (I have a LOT of
aquaintances who swear by MacZap), she suggested that perhaps MacZap writes
a temporary file to disk to store the names in.  The restricted size on the
floppy might have caused it (rather inelegantly) to crash.  A repeat using a
hard disk ran perfectly, and I am now a pretty happy customer of MacZap.
Just don't refer novice users to me to explain how it works!

PS  I hear Summatec has bought MacZap up -- anyone know what they're going
    to do to the program and/or documentation?

                        "It's currently a problem of access to gigabits
                         through punybaud."
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