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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:29:44 CST
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- From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET>
- Subject: NB4 Deprovements
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- In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of WED 16 DEC 1992 11:42:44 CST
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- I second Mervyn's uneasiness, in specific regard to the following
- points:
- >
- > if I once could but now can't put a string of
- > hard spaces on the action line, I have a problem; if I have to use two
- > keystrokes to find a label when I used one, I have a problem
- > if it's more complicated (when once it was
- > simple) to upper-case or lower-case or capitalise, then I have a
- > problem. There are so many lovely new features in v. 4; but why has
- > NBI made changes which are not improvements?
- >
- Like others on the list, I have been cautious about converting
- whole-heartedly to version 4 because I know my way around version 3 so
- well and BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF THE _INFO_ COMMAND (sorry for shouting).
- Other modifications I might be able to live with, but I cannot in V4
- find out how to do some things without fumbling through screen after
- screen. Although I have been an enthusiastic Notabenerus since v.2,
- I, too, find myself unable to recommend NB4 to colleagues looking for
- something better than WP. Mervyn's complaints, based as they are on his
- longer experience, reassure me in my own uneasiness.
-
- > This is
- > the first time I respond with unease and doubts to a new version.
- > Previously, new versions were unqualified improvements; now I find
- > myself mourning the loss of features.
-
- The plumber in Kay Boyle's "The Astronomer's Wife" reassures Mrs. Ames,
- "Ah, come, now, . . There's a remedy for every ill, you know. Sometimes
- it may be that, . . or sometimes the other thing. But there's always a
- help for everything a-miss."
-
- Can our plumbers at NBI promise as much?
-
- Glenn Everett
- English Dept.
- Univ. of Tennessee at Martin
- ivaa@utmartn.bitnet
-