The following good news from Florida says it all:

Tom Davis

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4:54 pm (2 hours ago)
Here's a link to the beta download page:

http://www.zootsoftware.com/Downloads/Program/Download%20Beta.htm

Don't forget to read the Beta Notes while you're there.

Happy Zooting!

Tom Davis
Zoot Software
td@zootsoftware.com
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I have been using a private beta of Zoot32 for about a week, and can only say it is great!

I have printed the doc files and am perusing them in an orderly fashion.

I think my activities as a CRIMPER are going to be very much reduced

I urge everyone to give Z32 a shot -- and iff you have questions use the Yahoo forum or ask the Zooters here for help.

Zoot really is a tight, well thought out program.

Congrats, Admiral.

Daly

Daly,

I thought this was going to be a straight port but I noticed a note about Word and Vista. Perhaps there's rtf support? Any other new features?

Tom

Tom S. wrote:

I thought this was going to be a straight port but I noticed a note about Word and
Vista. Perhaps there's rtf support? Any other new features?

You are right, it is a straight port. No new features (other than the Zooter icon looks different - changes color when the mouse hovers over it). Tom Davis says that he'll add an RTF editor once the Beta version has tested to be completely stable. He said he'd call the RTF version Beta 2.

Steve Z.

I have noticed a few changes related to items with links to external documents. First of all, the little link icon is now a standard windows document icon -- so a link to a Word document now has the little Word icon. Also, clicking on the links opens the document much more quickly.

Tom S. wrote:

Daly,

I thought this was going to be a straight port but I noticed a note about Word and
Vista. Perhaps there's rtf support? Any other new features?

Tom

I have to assume, though I haven't seen it documented anywhere, that the former limitation on the number of folders in a Zoot database no longer exists. Does anyone know about this?

Steve Z.

Steve -

have to assume, though I haven’t seen it documented anywhere, that the former limitation on the number of folders in a Zoot database no longer exists. Does anyone know about this?

Don't think that the folder limitatrion has been lifted yet. I exported an stf file from Lotus Agenda to Zoot with around 300 or so folders in it, and it hit the 250 folder limit. Not surprised though as this is still just a port from the 16-bit version - and still a private beta, incidentally, according to the website. This was to the first beta build, and I haven't re-tried the experiment yet.

The same old limitations also seem to apply to length of notes, too. I imported a long Word2003 doc, and it was broken down into approx. 5000-word chunks.

I'm sure this will be sorted out soon. At the moment Tom is just trying to get it running reliably on WIN98, XP and Vista.

All the best,

Derek

Steve -

have to assume, though I haven’t seen it documented anywhere, that the former limitation on the number of folders in a Zoot database no longer exists. Does anyone know about this?

I don't think that the folder limitation has been lifted yet. I exported an stf file from Lotus Agenda to Zoot with around 300 or so folders in it, and it hit the 250 folder limit. Not surprised though as this is still just a port from the 16-bit version - and still a not a public beta, incidentally, according to the website. This importing experiment was with the first beta build, and I haven't re-tried the experiment yet.

The same old limitations also seem to apply to length of notes, too. I imported a long Word2003 doc, and it was broken down into approx. 5000-word chunks.

I'm sure this will be sorted out soon. At the moment Tom is just trying to get it running reliably on WIN98, XP and Vista.

All the best,

Derek