drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew T. Laurence) (04/26/91)
Which is better? Why? I have the feeling this was covered before, so please just email back to save on bandwidth. A summary of previous discussions, or your very own IMHO, I welcome all responses. I'll summarize to the net in a few days. Thanks, Andrew Laurence drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) (04/26/91)
I prefer Boomerang, because it solves the most serious lack (to me) of the "getfile" and "putfile" dialog boxes -- no simple way to access various important files or folders. It does a gorgeous job, too -- it's the singe most useful utility I have. Norton is working on making Directory Assistance compatible with Boomerang (according to a tech. support person I spoke to at Norton). There is a RUMOR that renaming Dir. Asst. so it loads before Boomerang solves the problem. I have no idea if it's true! -- Russell owen@raven.phys.washington.edu Details: Directory Assistance is an init included with Norton Utilities. It modfies the "SFGetFile" dialog box to view files by date, and much other similar useful-sounding stuff. Take this with a grain of salt, as I've not used it! Boomerang is a cdev included with "NOW Utilities" (or download Boomerang 2.0 from sumex-aim and send in your shareware fee!). It modifies "SFGetFile" and "SFPutFile" to add menus of recently-accessed or user-"installed" files and folders. It also allows you to instantly open files by adding a sub-menu of files to the Open... command. It does other useful things as well, including first-rate "rebound", searching for files, creating new folders, etc. Boomerang is an amazingly useful utility.