CompuServe Messages

Well, gosh, Gus — it's not my fault, really!!<g> Yeah, my 4.0 is still in the shrink wrap — my last beta version was so buggy that it was unusable, and I turn around and there it is at Egghead in full release! The Corel people told me that their "in-house" beta people had finished the job, and all was ready to go. I told them I seriously doubted it, and it sure is foolish to perpetuate Corel's reputation for releasing buggy software. As you know, they did it anyway. But, buggy as it is, it is still evidently usable on some systems by some people. I personally know of two firms that use it all day, every day, and they haven't needed to re-install 3.0 *yet*. All-in-all, I'm not gonna depend on it untill I hear about a patch or two, but I will install it soon 'cause it has some awesome features (when it doesn't bomb), great for 3DS users. One of which is the contour operation, which simplifies the creation of beveled text, and the new fractal-based texture-generator is quite awesome too, if a little slow. Hopfully they will get the messege that feature-laden software is pretty usless if it is full of bugs. -Alan Iglesias