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From: SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
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Subject: Re: UniTerm:  Bug in File Capture
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 14:38:47 EST
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That ---END OF FILE--- reply for your request to display the file is not
uncommon.  That *THING* that Atari put into GEM to display the file has
got to be the most USELESS object on the ST.  I hate asking for something
to be displayed and having only the "printable" (according to WHO, an
owner of a century old Teletype??) characters displayed (ever tried to
dump a 1st Word file saved in WP mode?), and spurrious premature EOF's.

Request:  How difficult would it be to case the SHOW|PRINT|CANCEL alert
to branch to some DECENT file display.  It should be able to set a DEFAULT
for PRINT|SHOW (if it's fast you can always CANCEL from the display!)

   Even if that's too hard (with ROM), does someone have a fast SMALL
desk assessory that displays (R/O edit) a file:  maybe a window, that
displays ALL characters using the full character set, displaying
"unprintables" (0 - 1F) as, say grey "."s (I don't care) and the minimal
set of pull/down or CNTRL key options or commands:
1) Toggle ASCCII|HEX
2) Toggle CR: use|display-as-glyph
2) Scroll bars + keypad arrows + ? (other movements)
3) FindUP, FindDown of arbitrary string (including ALT and CNTRL chars),
   terminated by mouse click, not ^M (unlike uEMACS), so you can look for CR.
4) Quit (UNDO key?)
But K.I.S.S. (and SMALL/FAST)

The thing shouldn't care if the entire file is 1M-all-one-line (unlike uEMACS
which complains about too-long lines).

The only thing that I've found that has most of the functions is DiskDoctor
but it's big, slow, and more than is needed.

 /PJ