Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!kwa1_ltd From: kwa1_ltd@ur-tut (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Notepad Message-ID: <1991@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: 7 May 88 00:33:46 GMT Reply-To: kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 53 References: Distribution: 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 know; I just got done trying. Call me stupid, but I figured, what the heck, I'd play with the thing. ...It should have a surgeon general's warning on it. I am so steamed right now! First off, it is impossible to work the "styles" right; it will apply the styles where ever it feels like it. I was trying to make one line be underlined and bold, and one line be italic and bold. It is impossible! I'd make the first line bold and underline, which would make the second line bold and underline, too. OK, so I go to the second line, and try to turn off underline; doesn't work. So I click plain text. That works. Then I choose bold AND THE DAMN THING GIVES ME BOLD *AND* UNDERLINE!! Then it wouldn't print in anything other than draft mode. I've had one experience with it before (about a year ago, so I had forgotten just how brain dead this thing really is), and now I recall it to have been just as infuriating. How can Commodore put this piece of slop on the workbench? It is just plain not useable in its current form. It is not a useful or useable tool. Yet it is in the workbench!! The Amiga is a wonderful machine; but not everyone can jump straight in and appreciate its wonderfulness right away. Most of us have to go through a few steps, like using the workbench. So why is the workbench so awful? (The calculator is a joke; Say is hardly all it's cracked up to be, (and we won't even *talk* about Notepad!) just to name a few. Compared to something like a Mac, the Amiga does very poorly in comparison. The Workbench falls very far behind the mac in many respects, although it's obvious it was designed to be "maclike"; the amiga is a great machine, but amny people are turned away from it because it doesn't show its greatness unless you look hard for it. And that's a shame. So back to my original complaint: either do things like Notepad well, or don't do them at all. The half-ass jobs that currently exist do a great deal of harm to the Amiga's reputation. Karl ['(] kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to put a bag over your head. We now return you to your regularly scheduled flame.