Re: annoyances and whatnot

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

David Auerbach:
>Maybe there are retroactive bug fixes too. You know, just set the BO=0,
>(bugs off) and, voila, I can print out book manuscripts with the
>footnoting and endnoting working properly.  Just like IBM's old method
>of selling you floating point (just throw that switch in there when no
>one is looking and collect the money.) How much will it cost to get the
>secret mnemonic for bugs off?

How much money have you got?

Some of the other helpful functions and commands that they left out of the docs:

CT - Clarify Thought in DeFined block. Default factory setting is 0 (leave
muddled).

AF - Avoid Flaming (used in conjunction with the undocumented email
functions). this command, assigned to ctrl-alt-shift-Sys Rq in Xy4.kbd,
deletes from the active file any reference to any operating system,
MicroSoft, IBM, and any sentence with the phrase "if you had the brains of a
..."

AK - Any Key. Used to respond to prompts requiring the user to "Hit Any Key
to Proceed." Operative only when default is set to zero or nonzero.

XM - Cancel Mendacity. When the default is set to non-zero, an attempt to
type statements of the form "This problem will be addressed in the next
release of ... " or "We would love to attend your son's briss, but ..."
reduces active memory by 50k (d XM=1), shifts XyWrite into strikethrough
mode (d XM=2), or inserts the emoticon ";-)" after every verb (d XM=2).

Regards,

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx