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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Message-ID: <3755@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 20:45:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <734@ivucsb.UUCP> ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) writes:
)A few things I would like to see in 1.4 are:
)
)1. Scrollable text windows built into the operating system.

Some other guy said this was trivial, and that he was going to dash it
off in his free time.  This one is a big maybe.

)2. Since FastFonts makes text really fast, why not allow the option of
)   giving the NEWCON:  a simple-refresh window.

This is planned.  You forgot cut-and-paste to/from consoles.

)3. QMouse built into ROM.

What is it?  If it's a mouse accelerator, it's in there.  If it's a hotkey
kind of deal, or a SunMouse deal, it will remain a utility, although
we plan a support library for such utilities.

)By the way, are there any FD programs which give the functionality of 1 and 2
)above?

They're pretty tough to glue in as replacements.  If ConMan doesn't do it,
which it doesn't, it's probably not available.

	jimm
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