Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More DMouse 1.03 bugs Message-ID: <2064@sugar.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 19:36:28 GMT References: <1781@van-bc.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 26 In article ... lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes: > The only problem with what you say is that I, and probably most people, > have seen very little of CX. All I ever saw was a 'proposal' sort of thing > that described the Commodities Exchange, without going into a lot of > detail, and without any binaries/source/whatever. It's on a fish disk. What more do you want? > Perhaps I am remembering the one article I read on CX badly, but I didn't > think it was any more than an arbiter of hotkey combinations? Is there > more? If so, please tell me more about it. CX is a general arbiter of the Amiga input stream. That includes hotkeys, macrose, redirected mouse movements, etc... > Are you sure it was a knee jerk reaction? Sounds to me like Peter got > caught up in the simplicity and power of ARexx, and passed on some of that > enthusiasm. Power, yes. Sort of. I wish it was a little less text oriented. Simplicity, no. It's not a simple language. Its main avantage is that it already exists. Actually, it's about what I expected. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These may be the official opinions of Hackercorp.