hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) (03/28/88)
I recently purchased an upgrade of Battery Pack DA's to DiskTools Plus, mainly to get a hold of the Finder replacement "DiskTools II" which has received a lot of praise from different Mac magazines. Unfortunately, the latest version of this DA as of 3/27/88 is MulfiFinder incompatible, which greatly reduced its usefulness (at least for me). The launch facility, which allows you to launch any document or group of documents or application under the normal finder, doesn't work at all under MultiFinder. Other comments are that the search by date option only allows searches before, after, or on a given date but not between two given dates, which often leads to excessively large matches. There is a "Trash" option that allows you to delete files, but the default (carried out by hitting Return) is to wipe out files, a very dangerous way to do things. The upgrades to the other DA's that come with the package (e.g., the Calendar, Scientific Calculator, etc.) are minimal improvements over what already existed in the BatteryPack collection. Conclusion: if you like to transfer to different documents or applications under MultiFinder, this DA needs at least one more upgrade before being really useful.
cimeti@eecs.nwu.edu (Israel Cimet) (03/29/88)
>> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) / 10:57 pm Mar 27, 1988 / >Conclusion: if you like to transfer to different documents or >applications under MultiFinder, this DA needs at least one >more upgrade before being really useful. This upgrade already exists and is being distributed on various BBSs. It provides multifinder compatibility and fixes most of the bugs mentioned in the original posting. You can get it from the MacInfo BBS at (415)795-8862. (I did not keep a copy of the upgrade file after I updated my DiskTools copy). --------------------- I. Arieh Cimet Northwestern University
gross@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Evan Gross [Sys Des]) (03/29/88)
In response to Henry Greenside's article, I'd like to say that the upgrade he desires (launching under multifinder) has been available for a few weeks now from Electronic Arts (for a shipping fee only), and in the form of an updater program that will update a DiskTools Plus version 1.0 to the MF-compatible 1.01 available on Compuserve in the MACPRO forum data libraries. Free for the downloading. In addition to allowing launching under MF, there are some other feature additions, for example the ability to show a file's real icon (as would be seen in the Finder) in the DiskTools II Get Info dialog. Other improvements include better handling of multiple-monitor setups on the Mac II. A full list is included with the updater. As for your comment about the DiskTools trash function, well, let it be know that I tried it both ways when the product was in beta, and not one tester (there were 15 or so) wished for the default to be Cancel instead of Trash. I had to go with the majority's wishes... Hope this info helps, Evan Gross Author of BatteryPak/DiskTools Plus