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#Opus Upgrade

    22-May-95 11:14:19
Sb: #197456-#Opus Upgrade
Fm: Ron Legro 75136,2066
To: Bill Roberts 76056,1613
Just got Opus 5.0 (not an upgrade, first-time user, though I've worked with Opus 4.0 a bit on other machines). I'm running it under WB 3.1 on an ECS, '030 Amiga and am impressed with the concept and much of what it does. However: 1. You're right. There's some kind of bug with the function commands, though I haven't diagnosed a pattern. I can read texts, I can play sounds, I can de-lharc files. It is only intermittently (seldom at that) successful showing IFFs or JPEGs or GIFs, even though I (apparently) have set up the Filetypes properly and also have system Datatypes for each. I can see such pictures using, say, Viewtek. This may partly be a bug in my system or an ECS/3.1 problem, since system datatypes for JPEGs and GIFs seldom work, either. 2. I can get Opus 5.0 to lock up, requiring a soft reboot, by trying to internally multitask — e.g., trying to reposition a disk icon while a file list is busy opening. This has happened several times in my first day of use. — from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, via Amiga AUTOPILOT v1.78 [the only way to fly cyberspace]