| From: | Marion E. Wyatt |
| Date: | 26 May 2000 at 01:57:07 |
| Subject: | Re: text.datatype |
On 25-May-00 at 15:58:07, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote these words of wisdom:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Shinda wrote:
>
>> --- In amigaOS3_5@egroups.com, "Marion E. Wyatt" <amiscorp@e...>
>> wrote:
>>> I recently asked about the text.datatype 44.x that is on Aminet.
>
> Sorry, missed that...
>
>> Well, I
>>> broke down tonight and installed it (v44.2), and of course backed
>> up the
>>> v44.10 from BoingBag1 in case I need it later. So far I can tell
>> you it
>>> seems ok and I have the ability now to mark and copy text in
>> multiview. That
>>> is I can mark text in plain text files (readme, doc, txt, etc) but
>> not
>>> amigaguide files.
>>
>> This text datatype is not fully compatible with the amiga os
>> text.datatype since it does not follow the guidelines fully. The
>> author even states that he could find little information on the
>> subject of datatypes. Also this datatype does not work with the other
>> text datatype classes such as the MS-Word, Wordperfect and rtf
>> datatypes so this datatype on aminet is not compatible with the full
>> specs.
>>
>
> I have had problems with this - it can trash the right scroller at times -
> iirc it does not scroll left/right very well.
Have you used 44.2? That is the version I installed a few days ago... so far
no problems. I see no difference apart from the ability to mark text which
was my only reason for trying it.
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