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From: steven@boring.uucp (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Bugs/Annoyances in TOS, Developers kit, ...
Message-ID: <6829@boring.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 15:07:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 15:07:13 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 10:45:27 EST
Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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johnf@apollo.UUCP said:
> I just got my developers kit, and so have at last started to play with my ST.
> A few bugs and annoyances have cropped up, so I thowght I would share them
> with the net.
[...] 
>  *  o   It would be really nice if there was a simple application to display
>         a source file. I know that MicroEmacs will let me look at a file, but
>         I would really like to be able to scroll through a document using
>         scroll bars!

I agree. It would be much nicer if when you double clicked a file, instead
of getting that terrible 'more', you just got a window on the file which you
could scroll. And that warning thet you can only show or print the file is a
pain too. It would be nicer to select the icon, and then select a print menu
item.

> If anybody has source code for either of the last two items (flagged with *)
> I would love to hear from them. If not, then when I get round to writing them
> myself I will post the sources to the net.

What would be very nice is a version of MicroEmacs that opens real windows
instead of imitating them like it does. Then you could use the scroll bar
instead of ^V, ^X-^N, etc.

Another point altogether: some of the example programs use routines
beginning rc_. An example is apskel.c which uses rc_intersect to see if two
rectangles overlap. I can't find these documented anywhere (or even
mentioned in any header file). Anyone got any documentation? Has anyone
already dismembered the libraries to see if there are any other goodies
hiding in there, and would like to share it with us?

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp