Re: Another question

[hseaver@xxxxxxxx (Harmon Seaver)]

> On Mon, 24 Oct 1994, Nathan Sivin wrote:
> it significantly faster. I'm not sure multitasking would provide much > more
speed. Currently, I shell out to Magellan in 3 seconds, after the

  Oh, it would, it definitely would -- because there is no waiting at all
-- the other app is already there waiting to be used -- all of them.
But I guess you'd just have to try it to fathom what it's like. Plus, when you
are using native OS/2 apps (32 bit, multi-threaded) instead of the funky old
dos apps, things are much faster in operation.

> adaptability. I simply have no use for all the graphics, the fonts, the >
fancy functions; with macros/revised KBD tables, I've completely > elminated
dialogue boxes, which seem like great time wasters.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  So did you figure out how to stop the alt key from lighting up the menu
bar? I've tried unsuccessfully a couple of times to do that -- can't remember
right now why it wouldn't do it. Seems like you should just be able to edit the
keyboard file, but if it were that simple it would have been done here long
ago.

Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx

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