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From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW Wish List
Keywords: MPW,Entab,Big_Bummer
Message-ID: <14044@reed.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 90 23:26:59 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Speaking of Entab, maybe who ever's listening at Apple would consider not
trashing the 'MPSR' resource when they fix the

>   Entab -d 8 -t 4 <"{Target}" >"{Target}"

problem.

I envisioned a nice little menu item "Entab Active" which was to execute:

derez "{active}" >__tempRez
Entab "{Active}" | Catenate > "{Active}"
rez __tempRez -append -o "{Active}"

in hopes of not trashing all the Mark'ed items, but, alas, this doesn't
work (I don't think there's anything wrong...)
              ^^^^^

("And now, my trusty assistant Beaker, will turn up the Bunsen Burner")

In response to an earlier flicker -- ok, I don't like heirarchical menus
either, but customizable menus is hardly a *toy* feature, and adding this
capability to MPW would not be that hard.  The choice to use MPW is
frequently motivated by, among other things, the degree to which the
user can customize the environment.  Isn't a certain level of graphic
intuitiveness the whole idea? (Sheesh - wadayado, debug your shell scripts
in MacsBug?)

("Thank you, Beaker.  Beaker?")

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