Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!Carla.Campbell From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Review Modes Message-ID: <18513@bunker.isc-br.com> Date: 4 Apr 91 19:59:23 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 49 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 14639 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] CH> but, I can go into review mode and the machine keeps moving CH> along, no problems. OK, here's where I might be able to get an explanation of something I have wondered for a long time! Please enlighten me... I have always used programs with review modes which halted processing. Once in a while (say, during a transfer, if I go to look at the "elapsed time" and take too long, etc) this has been a problem. More often than not, however, I have found it to be a "useful feature". When I run a directory (not that I do often with SDIR around, but once in a while I do) or do a type command, and I hear something I want to look at more closely, all I need to do is pop into review mode and go look. When I am done and exit review mode, the listing just continues where I left off. Similarly, online, I sometimes use review mode instead of ctrl-q/ctrl-s to stop and startincoming data. All I have to do when I am done reviewing the screen is exit review mode, and the data which has been waiting comes right on through-- I don't miss a thing. (unlike when I use ctrl-q/ctrl-s, when I do miss a little bit of the text fairly regularly) I don't have to remember to pipe things through the DOS more command or use /p when running a DIr. I have what ammounts to a verbal scroll-lock. A while back, I tried Vocal-Eyes (an older demo, but I liked what I saw, nonetheless). The most awkward thing I found while using it was the review mode that didn't stop the computer! I know that sounds silly... but has anyone else here encountered this "problem"? If so.. how do you get around it? Do you just have to alias "dir" to "dir /p" and so forth? Do you just have to do the extra keystrokes to stop and start data when online? How do you handle those programs where you have to go into review to read something, but also need to know information that's about to come onto the screen? Trust me to be weird, but I just didn't find the 'non-intrusive' review mode to be more of an advantage than the 'obtrusive' type are an _advantage_. So.. shoot me. Failing that, tell me how to "get around" this nice feature! --Carla ... Read what I mean, not what I write! -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!Carla.Campbell Internet: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org