werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (02/13/86)
For those that asked me about how to get upgrades: I called Daniel about this, and he says that the upgrade to the latest version can be requested from Cottage Software, Box 200308, Austin TX 78720-308 upgrade costs $15 for those with FastEddie (the early version), $11 for those with FastEddie2 - currently latest version is 2.3. I also asked about known bugs, so people don't feel the need to report them, and he indicated that the version 2.2 which I had posted, "hangs in the second window when doing a 'global change all'", but that the current version 2.3 fixes that. Otherwise, there is the problem of all programs compiled with Megamax, that cause the SkipFinder-5.3 to hang (but Darin just tells me that SkipFinder 6.0 will be posted in the next few days, which does handle that problem, and which handles HFS also). I try to remember to use the Transfer command instead of Quit, but keep forgetting about it, so I asked Daniel today if he could provide the ability to disable the Quit-command. FastEddie2 can't handle hard-tabs without converting them to blanks, but that FastEddie2 comes with a little program "tabs_out" which is a utility to convert from blanks to tabs and vice-versa. Only the developer's editor Edit seems to be able to handle tabs "right", and that only because it does not use the standard text-handling routines (I was told). What I consider the most glaring problem, is that FastEddie does not work with the Clipboard, but I hope to be able to help Daniel find out how to fix that problem soonest (as it bothers me considerably) Cheers, ---Werner PS: FastEddie is now called FastEddie2, as the early version was considerably rewritten - this was pointed out to me today, a finer point I had not paid any attention to. Sorry.