Re: logica and intelligence

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:

> NW=1 is my setting. That works almost identically with NW=3, except that it
> doesn't abort and replace directory displays in the same window when you point
> at and CAll a file within that directory display. Personal preference.

I thought I had this setting also, but VA$NW pulls up a "4."

> The problem is, how many people really _know_ whether
> "they've done something" to a default? Often they changed it in 1992. Other
> times they changed it at an advisor's behest: didn't understand it then, don't
> understand it now.

One of the above, certainly. Absent a photographic memory, if one did not annotate
*what* one set and just _why_ one set it, way back when, it all recedes into the
fog.

> In U2 v116, there will be a sniffer program that looks at some of the most
> important defaults, and suggests alternative values if the current ones are
> wacky (or incompatible with U2) -- in fact, it writes a little program in a
> window, which you can, at your option, save and run (and/or modify) to
> auto-make those changes, for the current session. You'd still have to adjust
> SETTINGS.DFL to make the changes permanent, but at least this program tells you
> what they are. Probably going to be called SETUP.

Sounds great, looking forward to it.


Jordan