From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!essick
Newsgroups: net.notes
Title: Re: Notesfiles Live at BRL-BMD - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.303
Posted: Fri Jul 30 22:26:44 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 08:24:40 1982

#R:brl-bmd:5200005:uiucdcs:23300013:000:1130
uiucdcs!essick    Jul 30 22:13:00 1982

	Doug Kingston and I spent an hour on the phone yesterday and
solved most of his problems, and some of my mistakes. Some further info
on various points in his letter:

5: (makefile)  I think that this is repaired. The copy he had has about
	60 files on the left side of a dependency rule. I have since
	decided that what I had was wrong anyway, and have modifed it.
10: ( []?* in .nfseq files)  Yes, they work.  I believe that you
	can use a shell meta-character from just about anywhere that
	you would want to. The place that I know you can't is when
	nesting notesfiles (it doesn't really make sense to do so
	there).
12: (hardwired erase/kill) pointed out by many people. Several people
	have sent me the modifications for using the user's settings,
	and I'll post the updated code later this weekend.
13: (why a new title on E command) The E command is implemented simply
	by (1) saving the text, (2) delete the old note, and (3)
	call the note writing routine and have it include the text that
	was in the old note. Passing the old title around just didn't fit
	in easily.

Ray Essick, University of Illinois
uiucdcs!essick