Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bobg+ From: bobg+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Steven Glickstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Converting to AMS: Top 10 Reasons Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 17:07:37 GMT References: <103667@convex.convex.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 4-Jul-90 Re: Converting to AMS: Top .. Anthony A. Datri@uunet.u (448) > >10. Multimedia > Here's a term that many use but none define. What's it supposed to mean? For the purposes of ATK, it means an arbitrary mix of ordinary or styled text and/or any of various "insets." Insets are data-object/view pairs for displaying and editing different kinds of data, such as bitmap images, structured drawings, animations, spreadsheets, and so on. > >9. Enthusiastic support from ITC and other AMS users > Hmm. I've heard that the ITC is dwindling, and that no real further > development is likely. While it's true that the focus of the ITC is currently shifting and that development of new features for Andrew by the ITC are mostly halted, it's also true that the ITC has an ongoing Andrew support team which, among other things, incorporates new features developed by external users into Andrew, and provides assistance to Andrew users all over the world. > >6. Mail filtering with FLAMES > Which is still, it seems, poorly documented. The examples in the online > help work great alone, but I've tried in vain to get my flames file to do > more than one thing. That's the purpose of this mailing list. Share your problems with everyone, and you'll soon have a solution to your problem. ______________ _____________________________ Bob Glickstein | Internet: bobg@andrew.cmu.edu Information Technology Center | Bitnet: bobg%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet Carnegie Mellon University | UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!bobg Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 | (412) 268-6743 | Sinners can repent, but stupid is forever