[Coco] Bug in DW4Man

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I don't know my last enhancements to WindInt/Grfdrv (which have since been renamed) have made it into the current Nitros9 tree, but I did make 224 character fonts, and included two: an ISO one for text web pages, and the IBM ANSI don't (minus some of the control characters, but it had all the hi bit border characters, etc. Also had the wicked fast Filled Circle and Filled Ellipse commands (as did the level 2 upgrade from Kevin Darling and Co).

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On 2013-05-04, at 8:08 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> DW4Man certainly seems to be a useful utility.
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> I don't know much about OS-9 so I haven't been able to see the program running yet.
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> The famous "great wall" of OS-9  barrier for novices I guess.
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> And this raises an intreresting suggestion.
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> What OS-9 needs is a program like your DW4Man to startup as an alternate shell to OS-9.
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> The aim would be to allow novices in to OS-9 with an easy to use interface. Not a GUI but something that presents itself with the basic options used at the command line. Sort of a menu driven interface.
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> An option to drop down to the OS-9 command prompt should be available.
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> This would make the OS-9 experience a lot more friendly to a first timer.
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> Oh, one suggestion to improve DW4Man:
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> Is there any way to make it look less "texty"? It looks so... 70's teletype. Surely there are at least graphic text characters with lines that can be used to create nicer screens like the early IBM text screens had in the early 80's.
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> Don't take this negatively.
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> You've created the engine, all it needs is better paneling and a slick paint job.  :)
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> Nick
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