>Brian Smithson
>brian@grot.starconn.com
Well, I for one think it stinks--royally. For a product at least
theoretically in development for over half a decade, it is an embarrassment to
whoever wrote it. I can crash it with appalling ease (actually, I can crash
it with the F1 key, for help, almost at will). It has no critical error
handler routines that I can detect, and is generally slow. By comparison,
Microsoft Windows 3.1 is *speedy*. (I think, given the time it took to
release, assembler and its associated speed would not have been too much to
expect.) The installation BATch file is also incorrectly written, causing the
files on the distribution diskette to be deleted, without a successful
installation! (Nice touch, huh?) And the .ZIP file format, as well as the
copy of PKUNZIP.EXE supplied (likely in violation of PKWare's licenses) is the
superceded and unsupported 1.93a format (which, thankfully, 2.04g will
handle).
I am particularly offended that the software is termed "prerelease," implying
that I am a beta tester. NOT! When I pay money, I expect the real McCoy, and
real quality too. Instead I have been made a nonconsenting guinea pig.
Frankly, I think XIS has comported itself in a disgusting and
user-contemptuous manner. A pox on them.
(Yes, I plan on returning it. No, I do not plan to wait for 4.1 or whatever
the "released" version will be called.)