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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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Subject: Re: Mint ? (Eric Smith to replace Bob Dobbs in character set)
Keywords: Bob Dobbs, Eric Smith, Neil Forsyth
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Date: 14 Jun 91 07:50:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.160605.24427@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu
(David M. Baggett) writes:
]In article <1991Jun12.081652.27081@cs.nott.ac.uk> dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk
(Dave Gymer) writes:
]]Once you get [Mint] running, it _is_ great! (Perhaps someone would care to 
]]replace the piccy of Bob in the character set with one of Eric Smith? :-)
]
]Here, here!  Don't forget that E. S. did the latest port of Nethack too!
]But I think instead we should replace the Rainbow Fuji in the TOS 1.4 
]"About..." box with a "Rainbow Eric".  The Bob Dobbs characters have been 
]recently reserved by Atari UK for later use as box corners.  :-)
](Sorry Neil, I couldn't resist!)

Well at least it could be said that Eric had contributed more to the Atari
commmunity than Dobb's did. If Eric looks like an Acid House smiley then the
characters would also have a general application.

The problem would be if one process changed the characters to Eric but another
wanted them as Bob. Can Mint cope with such a scenario? Would the character
definitions be stored with the context of each process?

>Dave Baggett
>dmb@wam.umd.edu

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