CUTWAYS@QUCDN.BITNET (Steve Cutway) (01/31/91)
Index Number: 13264 [This is from the BLIND-L mailing list] Are there other Artic Vision users on this list who have received Version 3.00 or 3.01? If there are, and you've had a chance to try them, you'll probably have found like me that there are bugs that we didn't experience in Versions 2.1 or 2.2. Total system lockups and programs that don't run properly do tend to cause a certain amount of concern!!! I attended a training session in Toronto, Ontario, Canada last Thursday and Friday, given by Randy Knapp and Dale McDaniel of Artic Technologies. There, I saw Version 3.03, and other users will be pleased to know that it is much improved over Versions 3.00, 3.01 and 3.02. Programs such as LOTUS, DBASE, and, in my own case, KERMIT, that I use to connect to our mainframe, now load properly. Dale and Randy hope that we'll all receive this new interim release within the next few weeks, with Version 3.1 to follow soon after. For those Artic users who haven't upgraded, I think it will be well worthwhile in the long run, although I must warn you that the new version "feels" very different from Versions 2.1 and 2.2. Tracking and interactivity is much improved, but there will be a learning curve. For those who use their computers to read (which I'm sure most of us do at one time or another), the new version includes an interesting feature--Docu-Pilot, which allows a document to be loaded into a word processor or text editor and then read automatically. While reading is occurring, the application cursor tracks properly, and you can skip to beginning of previous/current/next line, paragraph, and page. You can even scroll backward from the end of the document toward the beginning, although why you'd want to I'm not sure. In the 2 weeks I've had the new program, I've found Docu-Pilot a very handy feature. If anyone wants more information, contact me directly (CUTWAYS@QUCDN) rather than sending mail to the entire list. I don't guarantee how quickly I'll reply, but I WILL reply. Steve Cutway Coordinator of Information Access Technology Computing and Communications Services Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 PHONE: (613) 545-6354 EMAIL: CUTWAYS@QUCDN.QueensU.CA