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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish List
Message-ID: <13416@gryphon.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 05:59:08 GMT
References: <2214@cps3xx.UUCP> <3654@amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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In article <3654@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>
>    In article <2214@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka) writes:
>    )An option should be provided when mounting NEWCON: to have it put
>    )scroll bar(s) on its window. You should be able to say that
>    )the window is #rows by #cols. This gives text history, and keeps lines
>    )from wrapping around when the window is small.
>    )To make history usefull there should be a way to cut and paste; cut and
>    )paste should use clipboards so that other things can pull in text from
>    )a console window.
>
>Good suggestions.  Not new, but good.
>
>    )None of this is very hard to do, so why not? 
>
>I'm glad to hear that.  Why don't you just whip it out so we can see
>how everyone likes it?  Don't worry about size, we'll be downcoding
>it to hand-optimized hex machine code later.

Yes, and as long you are making AmigaDOS look like Apollo Aegis, 
don't forget to add the transparent networking file system.


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