Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!rosevax!ems!nis!stag!trb From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Don't use autorepeat in STEVIE Message-ID: <277@stag.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 14:17:42 GMT References: <2233@tekig4.TEK.COM> Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) Distribution: na Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN Lines: 26 Keywords: vi In article <2233@tekig4.TEK.COM> georgew@tekig4.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes: >the slowness in the document. So I held down on a key as if I was entering >a line of *'s for a block comment. Stevie got about halfway across the >line and bombed. I had to reboot. I tried this three times. Twice it >killed the O/S, and once it subtly corrupted the system.... BTW, has anyone checked to see if this system BUG has been fixed in the new ROMS? I hate having to either 1) eat characters all the time in my programs to avoid the problem, or 2) internally slow down the auto repeat rate in my programs during certain operations that it isn't nice to eat characters in (like insert text mode). -Todd Burkey trb@stag.UUCP P.S. I released the Unix version of HDSCAN locally in mn.sources as a Beta release, so as soon as I get some feedback, I will add whatever features are necessary and release it in comp.sources.misc or whatever. HDSCAN has changed quite a bit for Unix, so I will try to fold some of the functionality back into the ST version. The only negative comments I have gotten from the Unix users so far is that one person was somewhat scared to use it, and several others would prefer to just see their files in pure directory structure rather than re-grouped across a tree by name, date, size, protections, etc...are there any ST users of HDSCAN out there that want to get their two cents worth in?