Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!watmum!rmariani
From: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Notepad
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Date: 8 May 88 08:11:08 GMT
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In article (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) writes:
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>Can anyone give my *one* reason (note:  not *good* reason, just *reason*)
>to not dispose of Notepad once and for all, and free up that disk space?
>What good is it?  It has to be the worst slopped together kludge I have
>ever seen.  Not only does it not know what it wants to be (simple notepad
>vs more sophisticated editor), most of its "features" are so bug ridden
>that it's not worth it to even try to use the damn thing.

I agree 100%  I'd rather have the free disk space.  But I did find a use
for the program.  When I was converting Mac fonts to Amiga format, I needed
a fast way to look at fonts my converter was making to see if they were
getting all the right size/baseline/etc. parameters.  So I used... Notepad.

The best thing about the whole program is the "...Are you there fonts?" line.

But besides that it's a good for nothing waste of disk space and I'm sorry
I ever saw it in the first place and I wish someone would do something
better instead of putting up with that junk of the workbench disk that
everyone gets all of the time anyways.  Phew.

The Icon Editor and Calculator also blow the billowing big one but at
least they're functional.  There's a lot to be said for that.

Apologies to the author, it's always easy to cut software up after the fact.

	-Rico