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Re: functions still present, but disabled [DR]

Reply to note from "J. R. Fox"  Mon, 15 Apr 2002
12:06:36 -0800

> Anyway, Func DR apparently can't be triggered any other way in
> 4x. Or can it ?

Func DR has been defunct since Signature. It was replaced by an
interactive dialog box, accessed by Alt-ForMat-Indents/Tabs. Not
really a substitute for the DR page, which showed tab stops
visually. I'm not sure why DR wasn't maintained. It may have had
something to do with the introduction of variable units of
horizontal measurement, some of which (e.g., twelfths of an inch,
centimeters, millimeters) are not easily represented visually in a
fixed-width, character-based display.

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