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- Path: news.uni-c.dk!inet!perjac
- From: perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigaguide Lib V40+
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:03:00 GMT
- Organization: The Shadows' Parking lot
- Message-ID: <4eqro4$321@news.uni-c.dk>
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- gcaine (gcaine@cycor.ca) wrote:
- > >What's the point in coding something which *requires* a library which is so
- > >exclusive as to be confined to OS3.1 ??
-
- > Each new version of the OS has some more features that weren't in the
- > older ones. Why shouldn't a programmer use them?
-
- > I know that it limits the potential users, but if sometimes it's worth
- > it.
-
-
- And sometimes it's not worth it. I use 3.0 in everything except
- amigaguide, where i still use version 34. Why? Because i think it's
- better. Sure it doesn't have some of the fancy formatting commands, but
- it does allow you to nagivate a document by keys allone. Something which
- seem to have been lost. (Kan you press r to retrace for instance?) It has
- a search function and most important you can actually *cut* text from the
- guides.
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