Re: NBWIN

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Michael Norman  on Sun, 18 Jan
2004 12:10:10 -0500


> (I've taken to writing in
> monospaced fonts in WIN programs after being spoiled by Siebert's fantastic
> screen fonts for the DosBox in W98)

Uwe  SIEBER wrote the DOSLIKE fonts
Steve SIEBERT maintains NotaBene

> Major bug in their frameworks view.

What is "frameworks" anyway -- outlines? I've never "gotten" the concept.

> Also nothing beats NB's conversion function. It does an
> excellent job of importing XY4 formatting (not all of it exactly, of
> course)

Try NOT importing/converting Xy4 texts -- just CAll them directly. Works great
for me. You retain everything.

Decent maillist too. But the absence of an active tech support presence is
extremely disappointing. Very few of the users know sh*t from shinola.

In my dotage, I intend to put some energy into making U2 thoroughly compatible.
A lot of it already is. Stack, in latest incarnation, works great under my
v6.1.1. But the XPL memory buffer is smaller and OOM generally looms a little
closer than I'd like, and actually grazes some U2 routines. Another huge
problem is that DOS processes go off into the ozone, and don't auto-return to
NB, i.e. you're not _shelling_ in the DOS sense within the same process (but
because NB is often the next process in Z-order, it frequently does _seem_ to
come back, i.e. restore focus to NB, when the DOS process terminates, although
actually that's just a coincidence/illusion. XyShell's fundamental concept was
to deal with this precise issue, and I can testify that to implement a
XyShell-like interface for NB, to _force_ a return to NB after you go out to
DOS, will require true programming gymnastics, involving probably VBS/WSH:
Bummer with a capital B -- and Slower with a capital S).

I guess I should upgrade... Getting a little tired of the income-stream game.
Every 12 months (it seems), another $99 bucks. I guess they need to eat too,
but the irritating thing is that actual **word processing** improvements are
relatively few from version to version... Instead they use a better Bible, or
whatever -- narrowly specialized stuff. (I'm probably being unfair...)

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Robert Holmgren
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