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Well, let me try again. It appears as if our News posting transmittor
sliced and diced my first attempt and sent the last paragraph.  Anyway...

My wife has been complaining that I spend too much time on the NeXT. She's
a bit jealous.  Now that I have SimonSays, I'm not only spending even more
time on it, I'm talking to it!  I don't know if it's because it is 4AM,
but that seems so funny. Now down to some Simon issues:

1.  Simon will not recognize AdobeIllustrator keyboard commands that I
manually put in its application directory.  I have bypassed this by
putting a sublevel called "Illustrator" in the Common Words directory.
Here I have the keyboard commands and some mouse macros for selecting
tools off the palette (these seem to work fine even though HSD advises not
to put mouse macros outside of the Application directory). From an active
Adobe window I can call "Illustrator" and run my Adobe specific commands.

2. Changes to the Preference Panel appear to be activated only when Simon
is quit and started again.

3. It would be nice if Simon would playback my voice commands so I could
remind myself of how I enunciated them. I sit there sometimes repeating
commands with permutations and combinations of inflections to the point of
giving up and retraining them.

4. It would be nice if Simon would open up its browser to the highlighted
command that was successful last. Chances are this would be in the
application that I would currently be using.   This would quickly
facilitate adding or retraining commands for that application without
having to browse through the limited view that is offered at this time.

5. I spoke to Dave Peters at HSD who was very informative. He said he
believes the BackSpace Application to conflict with some of Simon's
functions.  I had BackSpace running when I first started using Simon. I
found, however, that quitting BackSpace and starting from scratch with
Simon made no difference in the afore mentioned issues.

6. It would be nice if Simon could open specific files, like a telephone
directory created with Andy Stone's fabulous DataPhile without me having
to launch it first.  Maybe there could be a Doc receptical to drop these
files into.

I realize that Simon is new to NeXT. It is really quite exceptional for
Version 1.0. Although this is not intended to be a critique, it sure
sounds like one, doesn't it?  My intent is to share my limited experience
with this remarkably potential program, give and get feedback, and help
HSD better perfect its product.  Just imagine how great Version 2.0 will
be!

Please respond in open forum or to me personally about your experiences
with Simon.  Can anyone comment on the issues I have posted?

Stu Kossover, M.D.  e-mail----->  wind1289@med.unc.edu