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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SKsh completion bug.
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Date: 12 Mar 90 00:00:24 GMT
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In <13664@nigel.udel.EDU>, new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>
>On a side note:
>Why do file requestors all have rediculously (sp?) small name lists?
>I have my screen open to 640x400 lines and most of my file requestors
>show me 5-10 names at a time.  I can get 30-40 names at a shot with
>a workbench display, and THAT is showing icons as well!   Golly! -- Darren

Not all do.  The one in CEDPro 2.0 shows me 30 dir/file names and 30
device/assigned names at a time, and the req.library that provides it is either
shareware or freely distributable.

Khalid Aldoseri (Scripit, DSD, and a host of other freeware), is currently
working on a file requester implemented as a library. It is resizable, which is
a great way to provide for long lists and to allow you to get it out of the
way of text on the screen you might need to see. I don't know if any versions
of it have been released publically yet, but if not, it should be soon.

With 1.4 coming, we have every hope that there will be a CBM supplied FR, that
programmers will use it because of its low overhead to call, and that it will
be fairly easy to replace with one of your choosing, including Khalid's.

-larry

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