Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AWGS 1.1 (long) Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 89 20:58:44 GMT References: <1989Dec6.072954.22907@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 I want to emphasize Rick's last point about AWGS.... I would love to see a fully functional, vt100 emulating terminal module for AWGS. I don't have the package myself, but I have experimented with it at a dealer. With a decent amount of RAM, this program really truly impresses me and is one of the potentially most useful packages I've seen for ANY computer. Kudos to the authors, many of whom read this board. The communications module didn't seem to have been installed correctly at the store (the letters were real fat and bulky and certainly didn't fit 80 columns to the screen... font trouble?) But the idea came to me of being able to write a complete report at my desk, and when I got board or distracted, easily popping open the DataCom module and dialing up my university.... better still, if I could not only kermit files back and forth but ymodem them right into a WP file. Who needs a Mac, anyway? The word processor is very impressive, and happily you support all the functions Macwrite forgot, like counting words and characters. The rest? I need to scrape up some cash to check it out... Lastly, Rick Fincher mentioned the kernal... depending on how flexible it is (it's gotta be to do as much as it does) it would be great if add-ons were a possibility, like Timeout does for Classic Works. Damn... If a scripting language were built in and some sort of Finder front-end, AWGS could become an entire system that users would never leave, much like Hypercard has become for the Mac, only better! Claris deserves a hand for this... they obviously did some major code-hacking to make the GS so capable!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |r746jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | |a student at Carnegie Mellon U. | | Void where prohibited.| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------