Labels:text | screenshot | majorelle blue | electric blue OCR: Welcome by Tony Curro Another month has passed us by. We will be sitting down soon to feast over a huge turkey, and to give thanks for all our blessings. I have had some very pleasing news in the last few weeks. Microsoft was in contact with me and is sending me a form to make me a beta site for MS products. I was also contacted by Evelyn Hagfeldt who puts out a newsletter, Northland Microcomputer Users Group. Evelyn sent me a message requesting to reprint several of my articles in the newsletter. I received that newsletter on, October 13. There is a possibility that she will reproduce other articles that are of use to her group in future issues of the newsletter. Who knows? Today a newsletter, tomorrow the WORLD? In addition our conference, "COMPTALK," is now being echoed by all the boards that carry CatNET. SYSOPS who wish to be a part of CatNET, please contact David Kaufman, SYSOP, Brooklyn Broadcasting, whose number appears in my distribution list. I was talking to an associate of mine the other day who has shunned Windows for quite some time. Recently he purchased a 486 system with 16MB RAM. He tried Windows, and he was sold. He said that the Windows counterparts, of the DOS programs he used to use, are easier to use in the GUI (Graphical User Interface) environment. I must agree with him. I am a lover of DESQview, DOS, and OS/2. I had shunned a mouse for quite some time. Now I use the mouse most of the time. I do NOT think the GUI is the wave of the future. GUI is the present. More and more applications are moving to Windows and GUI. There is no getting around this. As a nay-sayer of Windows, I will admit the GUI is here to stay. In the last few months, I have professed my dissatisfaction of Windows. I still think more work needs to be done with the Windows envioronment . I have used Windows since v1.3, and there have been improvements. However, the programs that I have been seeing are making me lean more towards Windows Some of my readers may notice that I am doing more Windows reviews each issue. For most prorgams, when I have a choice, I try to get a DOS version. Most of the new releases, however, are Windows software. Since I do want to review the latest version of the product, I get the Windows one. This is turning me into a Windows freak. This month we have a article called NewsBytes. There are two bits of information in there concerning the sale of Telix, and the HARSHER penalties for software piracy. My thanks to Don Barba and Thomas Murphy, for bringing this information to my attention. For starters, we are reviewing a program called InfoSelect for Windows. InfoSelect has long been a favorite of an associate of mine. He was using Tornado, made by the same company, before switching to InfoSelect . He uses the DOS version. This new Windows version takes the DOS version to new heights. Except for the typing, all of it can be controlled by the mouse; from changing text colors to re-sizing windows; from saving cut and paste and so on. I think my associate may very well switch to Windows now. When asked, more and more people say those three little words: "I DO WINDOWS?" Many DOS programs, Norton Desktop for DOS and PC-FILE to name just two, have a very similar GUI-type interface. In fact Norton uses the same keystrokes in both the DOS and Windows versions of its Desktop. Makes the switch to Windows much easier. I just got a press release about PC Tools v8.0 which should be shipping by the time you read this. From the release it sounds very much like Norton Desktop as far as changes in structure, and also in addition of AntiVirus program and other features. It does bear repeating: "More and hore programs are trying to be Windows-like, even if you do not use that environment . In addition to InfoSelect, we are taking a look at several other Jindows programs: Act !, Textor, TypeCommander (fonts) and MegaEdit ShareWare ) . We are looking at two pieces of hardware this month. Zoom Fax/modem and BackPack tape drive. In addition there is Qmodem and Links 386 Pro. Until next month, gobble up that turkey, and may all your bytes count
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