[comp.sys.amiga] Pen Pal -- is it anygood?

monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) (07/14/89)

    Since the upgrade offer for MiAmiga File users to purchase Pen Pal
expires on the First of August I would like to know what the opinions
on the net are of Pen Pal. Is it buggy, does it do as advertized? Any
comments welcome.

Thanks in advance 
Monty Saine

mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) (07/14/89)

In article <452@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>
>    Since the upgrade offer for MiAmiga File users to purchase Pen Pal
>expires on the First of August I would like to know what the opinions
>on the net are of Pen Pal. Is it buggy, does it do as advertized? Any
>comments welcome.
>
>Thanks in advance 
>Monty Saine


PenPal does do as advertized, and more.  It is not 100% without small
problems, but it does seem stable and is worth getting.
                       TINAR, IMHO, etc.
-- 

/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
|      /// Michael Sinz -- CATS/Amiga Software/Support Engineer        |
|     ///  PHONE 215-431-9422  UUCP ( uunet | rutgers ) !cbmvax!mks    |
|    ///                                                               |
|\\\///      ...and then, just as all was in kaos, someone said:       |
| \XX/     "Let there be ... what was that!? ... An Amiga? ... light!" |
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/

eric@topaz.rutgers.edu (Eric Lavitsky) (07/15/89)

In article <7310@cbmvax.UUCP> mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) writes:
> In article <452@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
> >    Since the upgrade offer for MiAmiga File users to purchase Pen Pal
> >expires on the First of August I would like to know what the opinions
> >on the net are of Pen Pal. Is it buggy, does it do as advertized? Any
> >comments welcome.
> >
> >Thanks in advance 
> >Monty Saine
> 
> PenPal does do as advertized, and more.  It is not 100% without small
> problems, but it does seem stable and is worth getting.
>                        TINAR, IMHO, etc.

Ahem - Mike, you should also have mentioned that you are not an
unbiased party. Your name appears in the front of the manual as one of
the programmers (or was that a close relative? ;-).

We got our Pen Pals in the other day - the manual seems well endowed
:-), and we managed to get some nice output out of our Star color
printer. I did manage to crash it in less than 5 minutes, though it
was the kind of thing that could be avoided. We haven't used it
extensively yet, so I can't speak from a lot of experience. If there's
anything specific you'd like to ask, give it a go and I'll see if I
can help.

Note that the product is geared only towards using the Preferences
supported printer drivers, so PostScript is (currently) out of the
question. 

-Eric
-- 
ARPA:	LAVITSKY@RUTGERS.EDU 
UUCP:	...rutgers!tstream!eric
	eric@topaz.rutgers.edu