Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!bridge2!csi!nsc!pyramid!leadsv!laic!nova!darin From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ultra-Card/Browser Bugs Message-ID: <660@laic.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 19:42:05 GMT References: <21232@louie.udel.EDU>Sender: news@laic.UUCP Reply-To: darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) Organization: Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park Lines: 38 In article portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: > >From what I could see of the UltraCard demo, it looked promising, >though slow. I took the plunge and bought UltraCard. It is a lot faster than the demo version I saw, especially display-wise. Could be lots better, but a big improvement of the demo. Big drawback - lack of good documentation. The manual is disorganized and needed some proofreading. It states that better documentation is in the TheManual stack (since hypertext, etc. is better for documentation). However, it tells almost nothing new, and is not very big (6 chapters of 4 topics each - each topic half a screen). Supposedly, if you read through the help stack fully, etc. you can get more info. The list of function/commands is available. I assume it is incomplete since it doesn't discuss ARexx. The only place ARexx is discussed is in the "more..." frame, and only a tiny bit (enough to get you going, no examples). No registration card or info found, although there is a BBS in Monterrey, CA. Also, no docs on how to use the sample stacks. The address-book was fairly obvious, but the Calendar isn't (from the source, it appears you can't put notes for dates in another month but I could be wrong). The Tutorial stack is pretty good though (tutorial for creating stacks). I gurued a bit too. Also, the manual really tries to push the BBS, saying that many more sample stacks, etc. are there. Personally, I would rather have an extra disk with samples, full-fledged manual, etc. This would be much cheaper to me than the BBS (time-wise too, with only one phone, I can't download large files when someone might call, 1200 baud is silly when I get USENET at 19K, BBS's are usually busy, etc.). Of course, I expect it to get better with age. The manual hints on things to come (compiler), and documentation can only improve. A second disk would really help though. Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com) We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.