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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CloseView
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:21:23 GMT
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In article <15737@duke.cs.duke.edu>, jvb@gradserver.cs.duke.edu (Jack V. Briner) writes...
>I am not totally happy with CloseView and was wondering if there were any
>other similar programs availbable.
> 
>In particular,
>   I would like to get rid of the box magnifying window edge.
>   I would like to be able to hold the window constant and be able to move
>      the cursor in magnified mode.

Stepping Out II from Berkeley Systems, available mail-order for ~$50, MIGHT do
what you want.  It has a magnify mode (and the magnify box can be resized). 
Try it at a store first, and see if it does what you need.  

Additionally, it gives you the capability to shrink the screen image (see more
at a time); you can type and edit in this mode.  Finally, of course, it gives
you a large "virtual screen".  I like it...

>   If I cannot get those features, how about the white on black screen without
>      the magnifying glass at all.

There is an INIT that can do this (white on black).  I think it's called
Reverse Screen.

rich

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