Owner Comments on the Couch Fire Review

Last date revised: 03/23/99

I saw your CouchFire review - your weekly email "bomb" is about
the same size mine is.  I never blessed my cable modem more heartily!
That sucker used to take a LONG time to download via dialup.

I was wondering if you have noticed, as I have, that doing
lots of "Find"s and lots of scrolling over a big dataset in CouchFire
is a really sure-fire (no pun intended) way of causing a -10016 memory
mapping error.  Have you seen this?  I was forced, in self-defense,
to download one of those "fixes" that automagically remaps all your
packages when the error occurs.  And, at that, it STILL manages to
scramble the channel names soup from time to time when it occurs, which
is, I think, unique - I know of no other reports of the -10016 error
ever corrupting persistent data.

Have you seen any of this?

Mike O'Brien


You stated in your Couch Fire review that:

>The only bad thing about using find is that once you tap on a show to see the details, the find listing is gone. To get it back you have to do the search again which can take several seconds depending on how many channels you have. I really wish there was a way to save the searches

That's not entirely accurate. For example, I often search to see which Daria
episodes are on during the week. So, I "Find" Daria, and the list of shows comes
up like:

"Daria: 11:30am Sat, Aug 15 on MTV
Daria: 10:00am Sun, Aug 16 on MTV...etc."

If I tap on the first one, to get details, I can get back to that listing by
hitting the overview button. I can also go through the results by using the
up/down arrows.

Does this help, or did you mean something else? 

Frank Wojcik

Note from Julie:  Yep, you're absolutely correct! Thanks for the tip! I will update the review.


From Lee Leonard the author of Couch Fire... commenting on a paragraph in the review:

>The only bad thing about using find is that once you tap on a show to see
>the details, the find listing is gone. To get it back you have to do the
>search again which can take several seconds depending on how many channels
>you have.

Actually with Couch Fire and most other Newton apps, as long as the
little Find window is open (it's usually down at the bottom and out of
the way), the overview, up and down arrows let you navigate to other
found occurrences.