Re: modifying dlg files

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Wed, 6 Nov 1996 06:23:37 -0500 (EST)

Re: "Needless" confirmation box in DLG

Alter the call to PgmFi in frame {{K,TMacrOpA}} in XY4.DLG:
change it from "JM (Pgmfi)" to "JM (EdMacKey)".

You may also want to remove the dumb message about closing the file,
in EdMacKeyA: delete "BX vn/nv \1025Q2 ".

Re: nonsense
"Rank" nonsense is the smelly uttermost sort, and IBM didn't "string us
along" (which I take to mean "deceitful promises they never intended to
fulfill"). IBM wasn't writing the code, XyQuest was; IBM was simply
writing the specs, which pushed XyWrite toward mainstream usage --
according to IBM people, Xy4 was far from "finished" when IBM arrived, and
the alterations IBM wanted weren't a quick fix. You know well that XyQuest
was _never_ timely! Any more than it's successor is timely. Neither did
IBM render XyQuest un-"customer-friendly". XyQuest was always friendly,
before and after; if XyQuest was un-anything, it was un-responsive, to user
suggestions or exhortations, which is an entirely different (still valid)
complaint. IBM didn't bankrupt XyQuest; IBM poured money into it. IBM's
cancellation of the deal with XyQuest was not a reflection on Signature, or
targeted narrowly at XyQuest; IBM killed a whole personal software
division, a company-wide phenomenon, and the timing vis-a-vis Sig's release
was coincidental. To suggest that IBM deliberately destroyed ("kiss of
death") XyQuest is voodoo polemics; even after withdrawal IBM discussed
ongoing commercial relationships with XyQuest -- I don't know what, if
anything, came of that, but IBMers weren't completely insensitive to the
consequences upon a little company. IBMers who liaised to XyQuest on the
Sig project were as surprised and disappointed as anyone.

"Atlas Shrugged"? Isn't that some sort of futuristic fantasy about
railroads? I remember kids used to read it in high school, 40 years ago.
Ciao



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Robert Holmgren
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