I thought it fixed a lot of the problems that existed in JAWS 8.0 Peter----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Unknown Function Call To ismagicrunning
Hi Chris,That's the way I understand it; if you're running XP, it's a maintenance release.Tom----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 9:41 AM Subject: Re: Unknown Function Call To ismagicrunningOk, I'm slightly confused here. I was under the impression that the only aspect of this update to JAWS was that it also runs under Vista? In other words, for windows xp users, this updateis just that, an update to an already released version, that being 8.0. it's only a beta if you run it under vista. Have I got it right?At 11:24 AM 3/3/2007, you wrote:This is a public beta, people. If you download a public beta, you agree that you are looking for bugs. That's what beta means. If you want a stable version, don't volunteer to be a beta testers.Bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://brucetola.livejournal.com Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Robert Hebert wrote:You're absolutely right, FS definitely should have caught this one. We've all paid deerly for the program---we shouldn't have to fix it too. Furthermore, I am sure only a small percentage of Jaws users subscribe to this list or even if they do, still might have problems making this modification. What happened to the instructions that were in the default J S B and J S S files? Is it the case that these files would be replaced by their counterparts from the all users folder?----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:56 PM Subject: Re: Unknown Function Call To ismagicrunning Yes, it would appear that my little problem wasn't so isolated after all. But here's my question, and it may get me in trouble, but oh well. Shouldn't that bug have been squashed during the beta cycle? I mean, with as many people as I've seen have that particular issue, you would certainly think that FS would take steps so that type of thing doesn't happen, or if users reported it happening, they should've fixed it. Maybe my standards are too high, but I find it unacceptable that we should have to delete any files or make any modifications like that just so our screenreader, one of the most important pieces of software we use, should work without any kind of error messages all over the place. If you're a farely new computer user, or if you just don't know what to do, how can you be expected to know how to delete those 2 files like we did? Sure that's where tech support comes in, but what if you write to them and they don't contact you?you would receive all kinds of error messages and not know how to fix them.i fully realize that every system is different, and I fully understand that it's not easy for FS to squash bugs on absolutely every system out there. But if it's a wide spread problem, I would like to see them take care of it. In fact, I would really like to see a maintanance release that fixes all kinds of long-standing issues I.e. the loads of empty virtual buffers people are seing, the issue with the s key not going to the same link on a web page, the other focus issues that happen from time to time, stuff like that. Yes, having new features is a nice thing, but what good are those features if the screenreader you're using isn't as reliable as it could be? At this point, i want a screenreader that just works and I don't need all the toys. Just something to ponder. At 12:46 AM 3/3/2007, you wrote:Thanks, Chris, your clear and concise steps worked like well, shall I say, "magic." 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