Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!b-tech!m-net!mju From: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ANARKEY vs. History (was: Re: Query: Commando) Summary: RTFM!! Message-ID: <2610@m2-net.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 00:27:56 GMT References: <2746@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <44386@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <2752@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <946@noao.UUCP> <1022@paris.ics.uci Reply-To: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst) Distribution: na Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 41 One wonders why people even bother to criticize programs before they've read the docs that COME WITH THE F***ING PROGRAM!!!! (Putting on my asbestos suit...) In article <2759@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> burleigh@silver.UUCP (frank burleigh) writes: ]Actually, I have found a number of problems with ANARKEY. ] ]1. It seems to force the cursor to the blinking underline, depsite any ]resetting I may do with a cursor-setting program. RTFM. On lines 251-252 of ANARKEY.DOC, it says Cursor shape changes can be repressed by including the -C option on the installation command line (see "Installation Options"). ] ]2. File name completion is a little flakey. Try cycling through ]ANARKEY.SUM, ANARKEY.DOC and then to ANARKEY.COM. You can't get to the ]last name for some reason. Again, RTFM. On lines 1493-1497 of ANARKEY.DOC, it says During name completion, ANARKEY automatically ignores all files with the following extensions: .$$$ .BAK .BIN .COM .EXE .HEX .LIB .OBJ .OVR .SYS .TMP ] ]3. Using Mirror II (comm program), putting Mirror in the backgroud, ]doing something with ANARKEY, and going back to the comm screen: system ]doesn't accept any keystroke and must be cold started. This is prob. an ]interaction between Mirror's background and ANARKEY. Nonetheless, it is ]bad and HISTORY doesn't show the problem. I dunno why this happens. Check interrupt vector conflicts. -- "Don't find a fault. | Marc Unangst Find a remedy." | UUCP: mju@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us -Henry Ford | UUCP path: ...!uunet!umix!m-net!mju ---------------------+ Internet: mju%m-net@umix.cc.umich.edu