| From: | Jonathan Adamczewski |
| Date: | 25 May 2000 at 20:58:07 |
| Subject: | Re: text.datatype |
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.
Jonathan.
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