jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) (11/20/85)
I'd like to thank those who wrote to me regarding UW. I try to answer all mail. If you wrote to me and you never received a reply, then either your letter or my reply was lost. (There were a couple of letters that I received after my July distribution which I was never able to respond to; in particular, some from Australia.) Several people have commented about the annoying way that UW beeps when the mouse is clicked in an inactive window. My intent was to select the window and begin a clipboard select operation in that window. Clipboard mouse-down events which do not lie on top of a valid character are considered invalid (hence the beep). Therefore, one would expect that clicking the mouse on a valid character in an inactive window would not ring the bell. Alas, for reasons I do not understand, it still does (although if you hold the button down until the window is activated, it doesn't). Anyway, I was attempting to follow the way that the Finder selects items in inactive windows. It has since been pointed out to me that the Macintosh user interface guidelines (p. 28) specify that clicking in an inactive window does nothing except activate it. The Finder does not follow this guideline. I have received two things which I feel are of sufficient general interest to post them as a supplement (part 4 of 3, if you like) to UW in "net.sources.mac". The first is a "-man" manual page for UNIX. The second is a replacement for the KEYC resource for European keyboards. (You'll need to use the resource editor to install it.) I'd like to thank Chris Borton and Sak Wathanasin for these items. If you missed the UW distribution and you have access to the ARPANET, it is available for anonymous FTP from the INFO-MAC archive on SUMEX-AIM.ARPA. It is archived as [SUMEX]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-TERM.SHAR If you don't have ARPANET access and you missed the distribution you can mail to me. I'm hesitant to send out a lot of copies by mail (because of the size), but we should be able to work out something. -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: jdb@mordor [jdb@s1-c.ARPA] (415) 422-0758 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!jdb ...!seismo!mordor!jdb
gcc@ssc-vax.UUCP (Greg C Croasdill) (11/21/85)
> ... > If you missed the UW distribution and you have access to the > ARPANET, it is available for anonymous FTP from the INFO-MAC > archive on SUMEX-AIM.ARPA. It is archived as > > [SUMEX]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-TERM.SHAR *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MASSAGE *** I'm pretty new here, could some one post how to access these archived programs?? Thanks in advance, Greg Croasdill {...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!gcc}