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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: Why is the File Manager in OW 3.0 so buggy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.183929.26570@sq.sq.com>
- Keywords: OW3 FileManager bugs
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Aug19.143531.23971@nrao.edu> <1992Aug20.034912.8040@hemlock.cray.com> <BtA8o5.4HK@gate.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:39:29 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron) writes:
- > I've not been terribly impressed with the new v3 deskset applications.
- > They might have a pile of new features, but they also have a somewhat
- > larger pile of new bugs.
-
-
- dec@s-strat.co.uk writes:
- > I agree with these assesments of FM and binder (I believe there are
- > patches available form Sun for some of the bugs).
- >
- For me, the cd player demo sums it up.
- On the Intergraph, it's big and clunky, it doesn't even have a volume
- control let alone auto-play, and I have never seen it go wrong in any way.
-
- The Sun demo has more features than my $1200 Cambridge Audio CD player at
- home [maybe that's not surprising, though; they go for minimalist quality],
- but it also dumped core the first time I tried it, because the Version string
- was too long to fit into the buffer provided...
-
- > I must say, though, that not all the tools are this buggy. I use
- > Calendar Manager and the mailtool daily and have had no problems at
- > all with either of them, and in fact find them very useful and
- > productive.
-
- Mailtool doesn't work with over 1750 or so messages - it won't let you see
- any more. I have no idea why this totally pointless and arbitrary limit is
- there. It also rewrites aliases that contain quotes incorrectly.
-
- On the other hand, Intergraph don't ship a mailtool at all, and the RS/6000
- has an abomination of a thing that lets you click on a sort icon, type lines
- to be sorted and view the results in a window with no `save' option (I kid you
- not, it's a whole new kind of pathetic). Log on to an Ultrix machine and
- do `size /usr/bin/dxclock' if it's there. A 3 MByte clock??
-
- Me, I'll stick with Sun any day. The icons might not be quite as pretty the
- IBM ones, the baroque fantasies of Intergraph Environ V are missing,
- but I can get work done.
-
- The OPEN LOOK UI could be one of the best things that's happened to Unix
- workstations since NeWS. Let's hope it doesn't have the same fate.
-
- Lee
-
-
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