cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) (10/02/90)
In article <8420@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes: >I have tried an cdev called Boomerang (version 2.0). It seems very useful, >but isn't very reliable. Sometimes its icon is blank in an Open... dialog >box, and when that happens some applications will crash as soon as I try >to do anything. Unfortunately, this includes two applications I use >heavily: Qued 2.09 and Vellum 1.0. Yeah, I tried Boomerang after seeing it on the favorite INITs/CDEVs list of a few people. However, my random system crashes increased fourfold or so. I eventually had to trash it. Now things are peachy again. It is really too bad that it is so unstable as it is a great little program. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |D{r det finns en |l, finns cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |det en plan! (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------
earl@cogdev.cognet.ucla.edu (Earl Williams) (10/02/90)
In article <8420@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes: >I have tried an cdev called Boomerang (version 2.0). It seems very useful, >but isn't very reliable. Sometimes its icon is blank in an Open... dialog >box, and when that happens some applications will crash as soon as I try >to do anything. Unfortunately, this includes two applications I use >heavily: Qued 2.09 and Vellum 1.0. > >Any pointers as to where to get either Boomerang 2.1 would be >appreciated. sumex-aim seems to not be kept up anymore.... Solutions to the problems you describe are found in the documentation files included with Boomerang. Boomerang now has the ability to turn itself off during the operation of certain applications, so you should be able to avoid Qued and Vellum - related crashes. Sumex-aim is now healthy again (and "kept up"). ----------------------------------------------------------- Earl M. Williams ?8-) UCLA Psychology Department earl@cognet.ucla.edu 2344B Franz Hall "No matter where you go, there you are." -Buckaroo Banzai
peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) (10/02/90)
In article <1990Oct1.211114.20136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: >In article <8420@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes: >>I have tried an cdev called Boomerang (version 2.0). It seems very useful, >>but isn't very reliable. Sometimes its icon is blank in an Open... dialog >>box, and when that happens some applications will crash as soon as I try >>to do anything. Unfortunately, this includes two applications I use >>heavily: Qued 2.09 and Vellum 1.0. > >Yeah, I tried Boomerang after seeing it on the favorite INITs/CDEVs >list of a few people. However, my random system crashes increased >fourfold or so. I eventually had to trash it. Now things are peachy >again. It is really too bad that it is so unstable as it is a great >little program. My understanding it that Boomerang is "going commercial" as part of Version 2.0 of the Now Utilities. They're working really hard to iron out the bugs it has to bring it up to "commercial quality". It does help to have a real QA department have at it and have it go through a serious beta test. Disclaimer: I used to have a utility as part of the Now Utilities (MemorySetter), and think the folks at Now are doing a great job of bring shareware type software up to commercial levels of quality and support. -- michael peirce
gphg1125@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Glenn P Hoetker) (10/03/90)
If you're having trouble with boomerang, you might see if it's a case of init conflict. I've been using it extensively for over 6 months on a mac SE with 2 meg, lots of other inits, and to date no problems at all. It may be the case that it and one other init in specific are at odds--then it would be choice time. Good luck in figuring it out. As you say, it's a great little program. -- Glenn Hoetker University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science g-hoetker@uiuc.edu -or- ghoetker@UIUCVMD
meldal@bach.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) (10/04/90)
I hope the Boomerang author has followed this discussion. By the looks of it there are many happy Boomerang users who do not know of version 2.1, i.e., who have not paid there shareware fee. Or is the check in the mail? Sigurd -- Hard mail: ERL 456 | Internet: meldal@anna.stanford.edu Computer Systems Lab.| Stanford University | BitNet: meldal%anna.stanford.edu@forsythe.bitnet Stanford CA 94305 | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal USA | phone: +1 415 723 6027 fax: +1 415 725 7398