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- From: someday@hardy.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Changes in Advanced Revelation from 1.16 to 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.074317.10382@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 07:43:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov12.074317.10382
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- In article <1dr68jINNqd7@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
- >dtodd@titan.ucc.umass.edu (David M. Todd) writes:
- >
- >>Mike Stramba asked me the following in response to my posting
- >>mentioning that I had just upgraded from Revelation 1.16 to 3.0. I
- >>thought I'd post my response on Comp.databases to see if others have
- >>any comments:
- >
- >>POSITIVE:
- >...
- >>+ mouse capability (since 2.??, but much more fully implemented in
- >>3.0)
- >
- >Yes .. a very LARGE improvement in functionality.
- >
- >>PAINT has been improved and works very well with the mouse.
- >
- >Screens are now much faster and easier to paint. Good improvements here.
- >...
-
- FWIW, the screen painter was 100% redesigned and rewritten from scratch.
-
- >In looking at the 30 pages of instructions for conversion, I get the feeling
- >that they left a LOT of bugs in the conversion process in their haste to get it
- >out the door, and are going to rely on hand conversion of much that should be
- >automated.
- >
- >Overall rating: 3.0 is a better product, but the conversion process (programs
- >and hand-conversion) it terrible!
- >
- >--
- >chad
- >price@helios.unl.edu
- >cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-
- There are some patches to the upgrade process and a 3.01 upgrade to the
- main product available on the Revelation CompuServe forum. Or give tech
- support a call, they can get them to you.
-
- Scott Johnson
- getting paid money to write programs by,
- but not any kind of spokesman for,
- Revelation Technologies, Inc.
-