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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
Message-ID: <1442@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 89 13:55:09 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article , by limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli):
> In article <1284@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) writes:
>> 3. reading the Net (I had a program called X-RAY running that let me
>>    look through Handshake's window so I could keep an eye on the
>>    lower left portion of the PC window.  This is a great little program
>>    that was available on a Compute's Amiga Resources disk.  You can place
>>    this window on any screen, resize it and flip through any other windows
>>    to give you a scrollable view of what's going on.)
> 
> Now THAT's what I'd like to see in 1.4.  If multitasking and multiple
> screens blow away most users, a utility like that would really be a
> killer.  Is it PD or how does Compute! manage their copyrights?  Can
> it be posted?

Compute probably forbids redistribution, but there was a PD/shareware
program that does the same thing that I saw about a year ago. I've
forgotten what it was called, but I think I got it from People Link.

Compute's version sounds more advanced if it can flip the x-ray view
through different screens, and scroll the view into the other screen. As
I remember, the one I had only showed the screen immediatly behind the
WB screen, and you could size & move the x-ray window, but not scroll
its contents.

This isn't much to go on, but there is something out there that's
redistributable.

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