Re: More on Tame

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the cautionary note, Robert. I figured he wasn't a XyWrite
user, and he seemed open to suggestions (he wrote to me personally when
he first had version 4.41). I won't push him.
Martin

Robert Holmgren wrote:
>
> ** Reply to message from "Martin J. Osborne"  on
> Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:27:52 -0500
>
> > Incidentally, I have written to David Thomas about these problems, and
> > he has promised to investigate.
>
> Glad to see you're communicating with him directly. I've been forwarding
> (portions of) pertinent messages that came to me either publicly or privately,
> but it's much better if those who are really involved with this, and sensitive
> to the nuances (which I am not), have an unfiltered dialogue.
>
> One word of caution, though (which may or may not be obvious): David doesn't
> actually *use* XyWrite. I gave him a generic installation, which he has
> running, but I think that all he basically can do is fire it up and scribble a
> bit in a dummy document or on the CMline. My instinct is that we shouldn't
> delve into narrow Xy-technicalities too deeply with David, e.g. things like
> func NI in the KBD file, lest he conclude that it's too arcane or complicated.
> He was, at one point, teetering right on the edge, between trying to solve our
> problems, and taking a pass on grounds of "not worth it"; fortunately he fell
> our way. He would not, e.g., know what NI is, how it works, or what to do
> about it (disassembling Editor doesn't get you very far, believe me).
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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