LZ: RE: my 2 frozen cents on USGARD

To: "'list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org'" <list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: LZ: RE: my 2 frozen cents on USGARD
From: Sam Davies <sdavies@unix.trilogy.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:00:03 -0400
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On Thursday, June 26, 1997 1:53 AM, Micah/Richard Brodsky[SMTP:Micahbro@msn.com] wrote:
> Ok, it's great, right? I just want to put these into the air:
> 3 major complaints:
> 1-It's way to much like the MacOS. Unlike PCs and ZShell, it's really hard to 
> tell what's happening and how to make best use of it, without spending hours 
> and becoming an expert on USGARD and its programming, and that won't even 
> really work.

Well we're always here to explain anything you want to know about Usgard...  It's really not that much more complicated!  We just added a few time and space-saving features.  Keep in mind, all Zshell programs *will* work for it, so if you don't want to use the built-in features, you can always *REWRITE* them and include them in your program, but who wants to do that?

> 2-It's so oddly buggy, I could cry. It locked up in 4 different ways in 10 
> minutes on a ROM 10 calc, had 2 independant screen scrambles, 3 annoying GUI 
> screwups, and 2 misc. errors, all in that same time period. I just can't use 
> it or write for it.

Notice it is still in beta :)  Also, if you would be so kind as to tell us where the calculator crashed, we'd be able to fix these bugs...

> 3-What's with all those files? A 200k zip file for a 28k calculator's 
> shell?!?! Make a couple of subfolders. I just can't work with so many files.

Uhhh... actually there are subfolders... use the -D option when unzipping ;)
	Later

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Sam Davies <sdavies@mail.trilogy.net>