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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Textcraft
Message-ID: <339@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 23:34:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 23:34:16 1985
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References: <540@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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In article <540@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> brolsma@BBN-SPCA.ARPA writes:
>Bruce,
>
>I've had my preliminary copy two days; I paid full price for it from my
>dealer, with the agreement that once the final release is available, I'll get
>it.  

	Looks like I owe you and similar customers an apology.  Not
being at th customer end of this whole thing I was unaware of what was
going on.  I'll try to be more careful in the future.

>
>Once I can get the MS-DOS emulator in place, then I'll be able to use the
>wealth of text editing software there (such as MINCE or other EMACS editors).
>In the meantime, and for my spouse, who just wants plain vanilla text
>processing, Textcraft can fill the bill.
>
>My version (Textcraft 1.94, 9/12/85) has the curious trait of not being able
>to load the tutorials unless the Textcraft disk is BOOTED from DF0: (!!?).
>
	True.

>Additionally, I don't see a way to select a file from DF1: to work on (there
>is no equivalent to the "DRIVE" selection on most Macintosh software when
>selecting a file).

	Ok, this is a one minute tutorial for how to get around that
limitation:
  1)	Copy a document to df1: (drag with Workbench)  -- or  --
	Save a document to df1: (enter: DF1:foo)
  2)	From workbench... select the DF1: document
  3)	Press the <shift> key and double-click the Textcraft icon.
  4)	Now a) Textcraft will open, b) the default directory will
	be the one containing the document draged in step 1.

Arktronics has elected to look for everything they need based on SYS:.
SYS: is the boot diskette.  You can use the Workbench menu item "info"
to determine the tool that will run when you double-click your document.

If you add a line such as: "assign sys: df1:editors/Textcraft" to your
startup-sequence you can move Textcraft there.  I do not know which other
products use SYS:, but none of the system stuff should ever NEED to.


>
>    -bruce brolsma
>    Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc.
>    cambridge, massachusetts
>
>
>    ARPAnet: brolsma@bbn-spca