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Wayzata World Factbook
1993 edition - CD-ROM
by Louis Turbeville
Here is a program that offers a mountain of information that can
be very useful to a traveler or a student doing a paper on a
particular country or world region. The Factbook contains maps,
pictures and a lot of textual information on every country.
Much of the data in this program was collected by either the
State Department or the Central Intelligence Agency and put together
in a very concise and easy to find manner. There is statistical
data for every country in the World, with traveler advisories
concerning terrorist activity and civil violence. For students who
need research information on a certain country or terrorist group,
this is the one place to find it.
While the information contained in the Factbook is very
detailed, the Windows interface program needs to be improved. While
testing this program, I stumbled across a couple of shortcomings
that can be annoying if you are not prepared for them. In the Photo
Gallery Tour there are several photos that do not display when you
choose the photo heading. You get a message saying "Number does not
exist." This means the program is trying to display a photo using
the wrong filename. There was also a time when I tried to read a
text file on country comparisons and I got a Windows dialog box
saying the file was read-only. This message by itself is not bad,
however when you click the OK button, you do not exit the dialog
box. Windows will not allow you to exit to DOS if a dialog box is
open, so you must reboot the system or turn it off with Windows
still running, which is not recommended. When working with this
program, be sure to save the data in other open sessions just to be
safe.
There are a couple of nice touches with this program that you
don't often see in CD-ROM software. First, it requires NO hard disk
space. It keeps all of its data on the CD-ROM, where it belongs.
It also includes a DOS based interface, which will display all the
text and photos. The DOS interface is not as easy to use as the
Windows interface, but it offers a little more stability than its
Windows counterpart..
As the program's cover jacket specifies, this program contains
"mountains of information," and it could be very useful to a student
or world traveler. If Wayzata World Factbook sounds appealing, you
should see about getting the 1994 version when it is available, the
minor bugs in this version should be fixed by then.
Wayzata Technology, Inc.
P.O. Box 807
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
(800) 377-7321
Retail Price: $39.00