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- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:29:07 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar,
- Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
- Subject: NBSTART.INT
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- This may be an unnecessary remark for most NB 4.0 users,
- but I write it for the record.
-
- NBSTART.INT, the file replacing the old STARTUP, runs in
- display-off mode. This means that you do not see on the
- command line the commands you have entered in the file.
- This does not cause any problem, naturally, unless you
- use NBSTART.INT to run an add-on, or a HELP screen for
- installation of additional features. HELP screens which
- cannot work in display-off mode (DX, or NB vx, or OV {ascii 30}X).
- I encountered this problem when I had to re-install my screen
- for customizing French, Swedish, and Hebrew date formats
- (see NB-DAT01.ZIP). Regretfully, although NB 4.0 has many
- improvements with the date formats (you can now type TODAY M.DD.YY
- etc. directly on the command line to get the desired today's
- date format), there is no built-in feature for any langauge
- other than English. A multilingual pgm like NBLINGUA could have
- used my old screen, at least!
-
- The solution for this -- and similar -- problems, is to introduce
- a display-on code (DO) before the running of the screen (or any
- other add-on that so requires).
-
- Of course, if for some reason you feel safer with the older
- format of STARTUP (which used to show you what's going on
- in detail; now you get short [but effective] messages),
- you can put DO at the very top of the file.
-
- Itamar E-Z
-
-
- PS. I would like to prepare a short report of NB 4.0 with
- 'innovations and imrovements', 'bugs and problems', and
- 'missing features', as main headings. If you are willing
- to contribute, please send me items (short, please; bewtween
- 3-7 lines), and I'll integrate them in this doc. I will
- then post the report for everybody's inspection.
-