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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (text)file display program wanted
Message-ID: <336@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 23:34:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 23:34:18 1986
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Programs that use scroll bars


Hi group;

	Yes, indeed, at least several editors and/or word
processors for the Amiga that are endowed with scroll bars a-al Mac
Write's elevator shaft.  Two that come to mind right away are
Textcraft from C-A and MemoPad on the Gizmoz Productivity set.
It's such a sensible idea that I'm sure there are a bunch of others
around too.  (Sorry if I didn't mention yours by name.)

	Speaking of Memopad reminds me of the recent discussion of
the clipboard.device on the net.  Memopad is one example of a
progam that uses the clipboard.  When you select text with the
mouse, then delete it, the text goes to the clipboard.  This allows
to to cut-n-past across different documents if you are running more
than one copy of MemoPad at once.  The only disadvantage is that
Memopad is [apparently] not reentrant, thus the resident command is
out.  Since Memopad requires 55K, you're somewhat limited to the
number of documents you can be browsing at one time.
	By the way, make sure that the boot disk has the
clipboard.device in the devs directory or else you'll be visited by
Guru #4 as MemoPad doen't try to see if the clipboard.device is
really there before it merrily goes off to use it.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universisties' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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