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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
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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 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
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kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu

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put a bag over your head.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled
flame.