----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek S. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 27 January 2000 21:02
Subject: [netconnect] NC3- Worth it?
> I have seen a number of people with problems using NC3; indeed it
> appears that many of the bugs affecting NC2 (i.e. MD y2K etc) are
> still present in the NC3 collection.
The latest release of MD2 appears to be fully Y2K compliant. My xx/xx/00
mails sort after my xx/xx/99 mails, and incoming messages weren't sent 100
years ago. So far, so good.
> My question is (before I part with anymore money) Is NC3 worth it? I
> understand that:
> -MD2 still requires the collection of Y2k fixes as used with NC2
> -Contact manager still misbehaves
> -Octopus is questionable
> -Web Vision is causing some people problems
I'd agree with Octopus being a bit less functional than the 'NetConnect'
program supplied with NC1.1. The old program seemed much more versatile and
less prone to doing daft things like not minimising. But to be honest,
Octopus is open 100% of the time that my Amiga is running, and has never
crashed, and always works in as much as I can dial in, open programs, and
modify it to open other program (so long as they are set up as 'CLI') The
rest of NC3 is superb. The JScript in V3 is coming along nicely, the Flash
support is superb and it handles HTML very nicely indeed compared to older V
versions. As I have 'jumped' from NC1.1 to NC3, I can't compare to the NC2
proggies directly, but the overall impression is very favourable.
> My main reason for upgrading is not because of things like Javascript
> in V3 or other similar functions, nor metalweb etc; but for the
> increased stability formerly afforded by NC2 before Y2K
> patches+others were installed. Is NC3 more stable (i.e. as stable as
> NC2 *used* to be)?
NC3 components rarely crash. V3 can go down at certain points (as any
browser on /any/ platform will), but usually it just freezes, rather than
guruing. MD2 is 100% stable, AmIRC seems to be very stable through the
little use I've given it. NetInfo is cute (and stable) and Genesis is
absolutely superb.
As a package, once you've got the updated components installed from Vapor's
support site, you will never look back.
Totty <8^)
