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
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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.
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