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>Thanks for forgetting my name (:-)
No problem! ;-)   (tim browse tim brows tim brous tom braus - I think
		   I've got it now, Tom ;-)

> and for the ideas on menus etc - I may
>even get around to it one day.  I'm sure you'll have a lot to say on this
>standard :-)

I suspect I will... but then I have a lot to say about anything I have
anything to say about. In fact, I tend to go on at length about... but I
digress... ;-)

>Feel free to post Glazier to comp.mumble.binaries/newky server/wherever - I
>don't mind and I'd rather people didn't have to use FormEd >:-)

OK. I'll queue it for posting... if I happen to recieve a more recent version
before I post, I'll post that instead (hint hint!). The email address is
cba@acorn.co.nz (hint! hint!)

>You may find some people hate it mind you - some people have said it's awful
>to use; FormEd is much better; Glazier's full of bugs and I should junk it
>and re-write it from scratch.  It's funny, but I've never seen such
>vitriolic reactions...

Well, they're right of course. That is, you should use FormEd 0.03 and
RISC OS Lib to write desktop applications. None of this High-Level User-
Friendly Productivity-Enhancing Low-Cholesterol junk you get nowadays!

Personally, I'm happy to continue using my version god-knows-what of FormEd
Hacked by thingummybob and the other dude, and passed on to the Wibble
brothers who improved it, and then passed it on to ARMs R Us hacker group
who added some useful functions, which I then hacked to not give
"Unknown or Missing Variable" errors when saving under RISC OS 3.10 (the
secret is to REM out the line, guys!)... but I digress... to use my version
of FormEd until such a time as Glazier supplies enough functionality to
keep me happy... around next week should do it. Glazier shows great promise
but I don't actually use it yet (mainly because the templates for DSEdit
are nasty and have deleted icons in them and stuff and I'm never sure just
how happy Glazier is with them...)

What people don't seem to realise is that if they pat an author on the
back and tell him that the software shows great promise (as Glazier does), then
he may just do more work on it so that it actually fulfils that promise...
instead they seem to think that not sending him money and abusing him
and his program will provide the encouragement he needs... That's the
sex bondage generation for you... ;-)

>reactions to a piece of FREE software before - is there something about

The thing about FREE software is that you know the author doesn't have enough
money to take you to court when you slander him... whereas a commercial
firm can and will, so the only way to get improvements is to ask nicely...

OOOPS! I forgot to quote the rest of your entire message! Ah well...

Perhaps you'll like my new 1993 sig then...

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