Incat Oddities
The gap problem was the only real adventure that popped
up with using Incat Easy-CD Pro 95. There were a few
minor things that I'd classify as inexplicable bugs.
Like I mentioned before, I believed I had problems from
using test writing mode with audio CDs, although I
didn't exhaustively verify that the testing was to
blame; however, I note that PC Magazine says they
noticed some erratic test mode problems in the software
when they were testing it, so I always turn it off and
haven't missed it yet. I also already pointed out the
occasional problem with data dissapearing off the end
of WAV files I was reading, but again this seemed to be
limited to cases where I was trying to do something
else at the same time. A more annoying thing that I
can't seem to classify as a bug or a known limitation
is that I have been utterly unable to take an already
written to audio CD, whether written in disc-at-once or
regular mode, and add more tracks to it later. The
software claims I didn't close the last session when I
try recording; I know I always click the little
Close disc button before recording, but it
doesn't seem to care and it complains anyway. This is
not really a problem if you know about it in advance,
but if you're not expecting it can be very painful.
The only other minor bug I found was that, after
certain contortions I could never seem to duplicate
(some combination of fooling with the read track
function and other program functions), I would
sometimes loose the help file. Choosing help said that
it didn't know where the help went, and when I clicked
the choice to find it, the program had changed its
default directory to where I was saving images at.
Moving back to the program directory made everything
work fine again, no big deal. Minor problems and
documentation quibbles aside, I found ECDP to be very
usable, crash resistant, and totally free of
substaintial, work impairing bugs; in this era of
programs that create GPFs faster then I can type, a
refreshing change.