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- I have updated the browser from fish disk 18
- as per the sugestions in orig "README"
-
- - Bob L
-
- (It has also as a side effect been MANX16-ized)
-
-
- >Here we have a file browser for the Amiga. 50% based on the the PARC
- >browsers,and 50% based on a browser I wrote for Unix long ago (whose
- >name, I now realize, was probably inspired by the PARC browsers).
- >
- >This is a "level 0" version. Useable, but it needs some things done
- >to. I've got more important things to do, so I'm turning it loose to
- >the net, in the hopes that someone else will improve it before I get
- >back to it.
- >
- >Things that need to be fixed:
- >
- > 1) Theres a loose pointer in there somewhere, but it only seem
- > to mangle things if DEBUG is turned on. Not sure what's up.
- It doesn't show up under Manx!
- >
- > 2) The UP and DOWN gadgets need to turn into a scroll bar gadget.
- Done!
- >
- > 3) The routine that pages the file needs to be re-written to
- > use the console driver, and handle lines longer than the
- > window is wide in a more intelligent manner.
- Done!
- >
- > 4) The initial (disks) menu needs to look to see what is
- > really there, instead of just giving you the default three.
- > Putting in the assigned'ed things at the same time might not
- > be a bad idea.
- Not Yet!
- >
- >Should you fix #1, or add any of #'s 2-4, please send me the source.
- >Likewise, any ideas you have or implement, let me know, and I'll see
- >about getting them into the first real version.
- >
- > <mike
- Bob Leivian mot!dover!leivian
- 602-820-6859
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