Xref: utzoo comp.databases:2240 comp.sys.mac:29336 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!steve From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sys.mac Subject: Bugs in McMax 2.0 Message-ID: <22401@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 31 Mar 89 16:41:59 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 50 I don't know if anyone else out there is using McMax and has updated to version 2.0, but I've been finding some annoying bugs and not getting any response from Nantucket. So, as a public service and in case anyone has fixes, I decided to post the ones I've found so far. 1. @,SAY left you on the next line (for instance if you used a ? command) in Version 1.0; in 2.0 you are left on the same line just after the last character displayed. There is really more of an inconsistency than a bug, but it is annoying to fix because you have to put in new @,SAYs to correct screen position. Anyway, what was the point in changing something like this and why didn't they warn us about it. I faxed this one to Nantucket about a month ago and received no response. 2. XCMD ("Say", "Whatever") crashes McMax. I haven't reported this one, but you'd expect them to have tested it since the new manual supplement repeats it several times. 3. In writing to an alternate file with ? lines, McMax 2.0 prepended junk, which looked like internal McMax code, namely, several command names separated by periods, which added about 100 or so characters to each line. I phoned Nantucket about this one twice and didn't get a call back. I also faxed it to them and got a fax back asking for my telephone number, but have received no other response. In general, when you phone Nantucket technical support, you almost always get a busy signal. I've found I have to go through their main switchboard to have any hope of getting through. Then they don't phone back. To be fair, there are some good improvements in McMax 2.0. I have better control over my printer with the new STYLE parameter, though there is still no way I can see to set form length (I'm printing on 2-inch labels which don't therefore factor into 11-inch pages evenly--my solution is to skip one out of every 12 labels). Also, I'm not paying Nantucket for technical support, because I wouldn't need to call them except for the bugs. But that doesn't seem a valid excuse for not returning calls reporting bugs. I wonder if anyone from Nantucket is out there reading comp.databases and wants to respond. Steve Goldfield P.S. I know that FoxBase is better, but if one is already in McMax, what are we to do?