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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More DMouse 1.03 bugs
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Date: 19 May 88 17:30:18 GMT
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In article <2254@antique.UUCP| vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) writes:
|In article <9163@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||I LOVE DMOUSE!  The only thing I am missing (and I know this is a sore
||point with Matt) is a "popup clock/timer".  How can we convince Matt to 
||add the clock to DMOUSE?  Food? Money? :-)
||One reason I need a "popup" clock/timer if for upload/downloads.  If Dmouse
||had it, I would even think about shipping it with every copy of A-Talk III.
|
|Mach (latest is version 2.1) has a compile-time option for generating
|"Machclk" which has a clock.  The clock can be toggled on or off, has
|modes for either auto pop-to-front or not, and a special mode for
|cost/minute so you can rate the cost of the current session on your
|favorite dial-up data service.  Mach also has popcli, blanker,
|sunmouse, clicktofront (one or two click options), adjustable mouse
|speed, screen-to-front rA-M cycler (but sadly no window cycler),
|beeper, hot funkeys, one-hand mode, whatever else I may have forgotten,
|and features are all toggleable from the command line or while running.
|And it DOES include source.  All in all, a very nice package.
|(I have no connection, am just a satisfied user of Mach.)

Sorry, but I have to disagree.  I got Mach (1.6?) [thanks for Bob and
the other guy that mailed it to me], and I tried it and it just crashes
and misbehaves TOO much.  It locks up too many times, and it misbehaves
on GADGETS.  So I find it unusable.  I guess I'm sold on Dmouse and
will be waiting for a popup/clock/timer [ala sidekick] to surface.
The current crop of clocks [including the one in mach] just don't
cut it.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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