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Copyright 1986 Bon Erreur Logiciel, S.A.
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by Tim Conner, Jr.
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Hello and welcome to Beta Bits! This *** CONTINUED FROM LEFT COLUMN ****
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area of PC GAZETTE will cover the world Item Compaq IBM IBM Modified
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of software. This includes what is now Name PC-Plus PC/XT AT IBM AT
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available and what is coming out in the ---------------------------------------
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future. I will be writing about Standards:
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software program being beta tested and
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those programs that are coming out. Disk Size 10 M. 10 M. 20 M. 20 M.
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Mem Chip 4.77 4.77 6.22 10
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As a beta tester for five major
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software companies, I have the dubious
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honor of really testing the new Ver. 1.3:
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software releases before it is released
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to the general public. Mem Test N/A N/A N/A N/A
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Disk Dir 1'22" 1'52" 58.0" 45.7"
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You are probably wondering what a Beta Opt 5'32" 16'12" 22'23" 14'12"
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Tester does. Well, it is a group of
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dedicated users that a software company
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picks to have test every possible Ver. 2.0:
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aspect of their products. This includes
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testing of software, read the manual(s) Mem Test 6.0" 7.2" 3.1" 2.6"
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for clarity and ease of use. Also, to Disk Dir 1'34" 2'12" 1'2" 58.0"
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test each and every item that the Opt 13'42" 13'56" 15'22" 9'42"
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software company claims to have fixed,
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added, or changed. All of this is very
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important to the company as that the As you can see from the above chart,
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final software product will either be that this new version 2.0 will take a
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profitable or a bust! bit more time to optimize. However, I
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have not optimize my hard disk on any
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In this premier column, I will be of the machines in over three weeks!
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addressing several new items that I am When I was using the 1.3 version, I
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currently beta testing and somewhere usually had to optimize the hard drive
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else in this issue is a review of a San every other day. Thus, you now see the
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Francisco company's two entries into savings in doing an optimization every
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the software market. so often.
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One last note, I am not being paid and To order release 2.0, call or write to
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I am not endorsing any products the address below:
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appearing in Beta Bits or Quicksilver's
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Review. All of these reviews and Softlogic Solutions, Inc.
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articles appearing in PC GAZETTE are 530 Chestnut Street
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strictly for informing you, the public, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101
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of any new items that you might Toll Free Order Number: (800) 272-9900.
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purchase in the near future.
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Now that all of the above is over with, Expected release of Disk Optimizer
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let's take a look of what is happening version 2.0 will be in two months.
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out in the world of software.
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Beta Testing #2:
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Quicksilver's Snap Judgments: ----------------
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In the Snap Judgments Department, you This beta testing is actually a
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may want to wait on your purchase of preliminary report on Borland's Turbo
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Microsoft's QuickBasic version 2.0. Pascal version 4.0.
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The reason is that the company is going
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into hi-gear fixing several bugs and So far, I have been beta testing for
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including a debugger called CodeView over two months on the new release of
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into the package. The estimated time Turbo Pascal and I have been really
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table for release 3.0 of QuickBasic impressed by this release. The many new
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will be within the next four months. features includes the following:
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In other news, those fun loving folks 1) Ability to connect with other
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at Ashton-Tate are hurrying to put out Borland products such as Turbo
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a newer version of dBase III Plus. I Prolog and Turbo Lightning.
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will bet that even with the new 2) End of the 64k code barrier.
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release, that there will be more bugs 3) A new quick compiler which speeds
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with the software due to the hurried up the compiling time.
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pace.
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Within the next month, Microsoft will As of now, the beta testing is going
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be releasing the new 'C' language rather slowly. Several beta testers
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version 4.0. If you are a registered have found many bugs with this test
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user of Microsoft's C or Lattice 'C', version. Borland is trying to fix all
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you might want to get in touch with of the problems with another test
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Microsoft for their newer version! version due for release to the beta
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Version 4.0, is very compatible to testers shortly.
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either UNIX or XENIX. This version will
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include the new CodeView(R) for I will be giving you a full detailed
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debugging. Microsoft's phone number report on Turbo Pascal Version 4.0 in a
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is:(206) 882-8080. future column.
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Beta Testing #1:
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---------------- Quicksilver's Pet Pieves:
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I am currently beta testing a newer -------------------------
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release of Disk Optimizer from
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SoftLogic Solutions. This section is where you get a chance
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to blow off some steam against software
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This version (2.0), is a major companies. If you have any complaints,
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enhancement from the old release 1.0 or questions, tid-bits, or comments,
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1.3. Many of these enhancements please leave E-MAIL (address to Tim
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includes the following items: Conner) at either Polaris BBS or
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InfoLink Network. The author reserves
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1) A preliminary memory test the right to edit any mail that I use
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2) Verifies DMA to disk transfer in this column. Please when you leave
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from all memory mail, leave your full address as I am
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3) Performs READ AFTER WRITE planning to send any comments (good or
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verification bad) to the software company for their
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4) Displays visual feedback of the responses.
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process
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5) Sub-directories are no longer Let's start off this section with one
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sorted of my pet pieces.
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6) Does NOT alter any file/directory
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with an attribute of Hidden or To Ashton-Tate: Where is the dBRUN
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System program that you have promised to all
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7) For DOS 3.x users: Allocates all of those buyers of dBase III Plus
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directories as close to the File package?? Originally, the dBRUN
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Allocation Table as possible program was due out by May 1986 and it
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8) Allocates COM, EXE, SYS, OVL and has been delayed over four times!! Get
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Read Only files to the beginning on the ball, folks!!
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of the disk, following the
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directory clusters. The Final Word:
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9) Allow up to 40 levels of sub- ---------------
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directory nesting
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10) Allow up to 1000 directories I hope that you enjoy Beta Bits. Since
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11) Tolerates file names that begin this is the first column, I will
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with a period promise to make this column much better
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12) Displays the full disk statistics in the future. All comments are greatly
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at the end welcome. Please send your comments to
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13) Displays file names and parent either Polaris BBS or InfoLink Network.
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directory or directory name The board's phone numbers are listed
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when a read error occurs. elsewhere in this issue.
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14) Recovers unused clusters caused
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by deleting files from sub- Within the next few months, I will be
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directories. beta testing several software packages
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from Microsoft and several software
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So far, the beta testing is currently packages from Europe. Europe??
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in it's fifth test. It is about 85-90%
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completed. Some minor bugs have been Yes, I said Europe. I will be going
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found and I expect that this will be over to Europe to visit and to
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remedied within the next test. interview the president of the French
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version of Philipe Kahn's Borland
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Here are some test timing information International. I will also report on
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utilizing version 1.3 and the new the software industry and the
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version 2.0 (test #5). Remember, this availability of American software and
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test is being conducted on 3 different magazines. Who knows, I might get an
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machines with different set-ups. exclusive for PC GAZETTE. I think that
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this will be a first for this
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*** CONTINUED ON RIGHT COLUMN *** electronic newspaper!!
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