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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BinSCII
Keywords: comments suggestions
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Date: 25 Feb 89 18:19:45 GMT
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In article <1238@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
>
>First of all, I think the idea is great ;-)
>
>However;
>  I hate scrolling counters (Hard on the eyes) !-(  (squint)
>  I like to know what file is being worked on.
>
>Suggestions:
>  Only perform a return (No Line-feed) when displaying the counter.
>  Display the active file/path as soon as it is known.
>  Supply more info relating to what actions are occuring.

Sorry about that counter business...It was debugging stuff not
intended to get out. v1.01 no longer has that 'feature'.

I'll put something in to tell the user what's going on during the pack
and unpack procedures. That should be nice...


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