Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!claris!jazzman From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AWGS 1.1 (long) Message-ID: <10724@claris.com> Date: 7 Dec 89 18:43:52 GMT References: Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA Lines: 58 Before I start, I want to say that I have not seen an idea that we didn't talk about at one time or another in development. From article , by jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness"): > 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. Thanks. I really wanted VT100. The fates were against it, alas. We didn't have the time or the resources. > 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? I have both a MacPlus and a GS at home. I turn on my Mac to play Risk. I use AWGS for everything else. Of course I don't have a modem. The dealer above did not have Monaco 9 in his system folder. You can almost achieve the same thing a downloading into WP. You can download to the window and copy-paste, or you can save it to a text file and import it. You can also send the text from a WP, AppleWorks WP, MSGS, or a text file directly from CM. > 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... I think the Word Processor is the second weakest module. > 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! Well, if we do a 2.0, we have some really, really cool ideas about how to redo the driver to do really serious stuff (drop-in modules, backgroud tasks (other than downlaods), modules hat don't have windows (spell-checking, for instance), XTND capability, etc.). > Claris deserves a hand for this... they obviously did some major > code-hacking to make the GS so capable!! Well, a lot of it wasn't hacking (but a lot of it was!). Thanks for the post! From an old StyleWare guy who at one time never thought we could do it! -- Syd Polk | Wherever you go, there you are. jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light. GO 'STROS! | These opinions are mine. Any resemblence to other GO RICE! | opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence.