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From: jkr@pyr.gatech.EDU (J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QEDIT 2.0 help screen
Message-ID: <5129@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 88 17:10:08 GMT
References: <2393@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: jkr@pyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR))
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Sammy Mitchell (the creator of Qedit) is extremely concerned about keeping
the program as small as possible.  In an attempt to keep the program 
size small he only allocated a small buffer (1200 bytes I think) for the
help area with a compression scheme which expands the help display when
it is asked for.  Unfortunately, if you have a full help screen to put
into the program (full ==> few spaces) his compression scheme cannot make 
it fit into his buffer.  In the latest beta version of the next release
he has expanded the buffer to 1600 bytes.  (Personally I have to wonder if
the code which expands this is worth the 400 bytes he is still trying to
save, but it's his program.)


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