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Instant File Access
Type of Program: File Utility
Supported Platforms: Win 3.11, Win 95 (only 16 bit apps)
Company/Author Name: Alexoft/Michael Mondry
Version: 4.00
Price: US$ 25
Installed Size: 846 K
If you like the thrill of discovering the features a program promises
without clearly explaining how and where to find them, try Instant File Access (IFA).
You'll taste also the excitement of a surprising final! Instant File Access is a program
which helps you to manage your files (copying, deleting, renaming, etc, in few words all
the File Manager's stuff) from wherever you are in your PC environment. Moreover, if you
run Win 3.11, you'll be able to read and give Win 95 long file names (remember the
exciting final...). To accomplish this task, Instant File Access has a wizard utility
which "tunes", for example the "open" or "save as..."
windows with the window its display when you run it, giving you the tools to manage files
even from the "open file" window in Word for Windows. Plus, you can arrange some
floating windows containing the files you most often use. The only problem is that you
have to discover all these interesting features almost by your own. You'll have to dig
into the various supported helping features, such as FAQs, IFA Global Tour and IFA Help.
The Performance rating would have been much higher if only the newest (and more
highlighted) feature, long file names under Win 3.11, would have worked. After a long
search, I discovered why it didn't work. You need another utility, named DOS4, to let IFA
make you read and write file names longer than eight characters. I'd have preferred it
stated in a much clearer manner, before downloading the program: it would have been
fairer.
Correction: There are two mistakes in my review about the
program "Instant File Access". First, the address:the correct address is: 507 de
la Metairie Nuns' Island, Quebec H3E 1S4 (and not "Nunsi", and "154")
Second, the statement about the
need of an additional program (4DOS) to see long file names with 16-bit apps. THIS
IS NOT TRUE! You can give and use long file names simply using Instant File
Access. NO OTHER PROGRAM IS REQUIRED! I deeply apologize for
these two mistakes. Davide Di Lazzaro
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Reviewed by Davide Di Lazzaro
Whom to Contact: Alexoft, 507 De La Metairie
Nuns Island, Quebec
H3E 1S4, Canada
How to Pay: Cash, Check, MC, VISA, AmEx, Discover. CC
orders to: Public Software Library (Item Nr. #11873)
P.O. Box 35705
Houston TX, 77235-57,Internet:
http://206.109.101-6/cgi-win/psl_ord.exe/ITEM11873
Tel: (800) 2424-PsL
(713) 524-6394
Fax: (713) 524-6398
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