Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NIB 1.0 Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 23:48:03 GMT References: <1664@ucqais.uc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: <1664@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes: > NIB 1.0 - Nibble is a backup program ala Marauder > The program is relatively small and is very user friendly. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So far I've found at least two blunders in the user interface department: 1) The program doesn't work on one-floppy systems (like my 1000). Fine. But the program doesn't tell you this right off the bat, even though it KNOWS you have only one drive (the source/dest buttons are both set on "df0" and you cannot change them). You have to actually attempt to start a copy before it brings up a requester telling you to give up. 2) The program can't figure out when the write-protect tab of the disk is set. Even DISKCOPY does this. Instead, it tries to write track after track, posting errors on the display as it goes. Those are the only two I've found so far...I've only tried to use the program twice so far. -- Michael Portuesi * Information Technology Center * Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 "Why do I live the way I do ain't it obvious I'm just a man like you" --Boy George