News for Zoot fans

Posted by Cassius
Mar 7, 2008 at 11:34 PM

Derek Cornish wrote: Although I’m a great fan, and current user, of GV - which works fine for me on XP - I don’t see it as comparable with Zoot in terms of capacity to organize information. Complementary - yes.
> >It’s hardly surprising that people seem to be switching over to the Mac in droves. The lack of decent writing tools in Windows after all these years is pretty disappointing. I had as good a set when I used DOS: Lotus Agenda, Lotus Magellan, Lotus Manuscript, PC-Write, Grandview,
Harvard Graphics, dtSearch and DesQview/X.
> >Meanwhile, Mac users have - well, we know what they have :-(. I won’t be upgrading to Vista when my Thinkpad bites the dirt. In fact, it will be a good time to switch platforms.
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1) I, too, still use GV for some things on Win XP. Derek, what settings (PIF, etc.) or supplementary software do you use to make GV as friendly as possible on XP? —Maybe I should start another topic on this as a number of us still use GV.

2) I have the same feeling about the Mac, but my current laptop is only 15 months old. Another incentive: From what I’ve read, Vista is an abomination. The main drawback to switching is moving all info/documents from Win software to Mac Software. Anyone have a “magic” solution?

3) Derek, all that great DOS software? Either you must be almost as old as I or you were a boy prodigy.

4) I do/did a lot of math/stat work, so rtf is/was important. (In GV, I used HP printer codes to create math equations.)

-c