freund@nada.kth.se (Peter Freund) (05/25/88)
I just wanted to complain a little about some of my favorite programs.
Someone always learns something, I thought.
First let med tell you: I am using a SWEDISH System 4.3 (S1) - in Sweden!
Finder (6.0 (S1)):
The resource LAYO can easily be modified to show date as numbers
(88-05-25) instead of usual format. It works well for "Show as Text",
but do not apply to the Info-box (Cmd-I).
DiskTop (version 3.0.2)
Funny bug! This is a DA that can be used as a nice Finder-substitute. One
feature is "Find by Modified date". I select this and DiskTop automaticly
suggest the currecnt date, 88-05-25 in correct swedish format. I click
"Find" and recieve the error message "Date invalid, format is dd/mm/yy".
FileMaker Plus (version 2.1):
Really great program, but cannot sort swedish characters correctly! Bad.
WriteNow (1.0.7):
Fast and nice WP-program. It is easy to create your own dictionary, since
one can get a empty file and add any words. But the dictionary cannot see
any internationa characters (above 80Hex) when I select suggest.
WN cannot see both upper and lower case when spelling, so a word with odd
characters have to be twice in dictionary, once for upper and once for lower.
But the search is most odd - if I search for A and replace with X, it also
do replace all 80H, 81H, 87H, 88H, 89H, 8AH, 8BH, 8CH characters (see Mac-
ASCII-table).
FullWrite (preliminary version yet):
The decimal separator is comma instead of (.) in a swedish system. FW does
suggest the american format (when I select Kerning, or Line-Spacing) "1.000",
but does only accept when values is changed using arrows, and not entered from
keyboard.
The spelling-checker is great, but there is no way to replace it with my own,
swedish (like in WriteNow).
??? PROGRAM WANTED ???
Is there a Macintosh communication program with a conversion/filter table that
the user can modify?
MacTerminal and inTalk can be set to "Swedish", so every received }{|][\
is translated to 8CH, 8AH, 9AH, 81H, 80H, 85H (see Mac-ASCII-table) and
vice versa for sending from Macintosh. (Mainly those characters)
But I would like to easily switch between a MS-DOS-machine (that uses its own
8-bit-ASCII-format, similar to Mac, but diffrent positioning of the "above80")
and a "swedish mainframe" that uses ][\...
(There is at least 3 such programs for the MS-DOS world...)
Those that do sorting, search and similar routines - and want my blessing,
they take a look in "Inside Macintosh", volumen V, chapter "International
Utility Package", 9, 287, 291.
"My blessing never hurts - I think" - I
Disclaimer: Well, the usuall stuff... "My employer, nor organisation that
I belong to have anything to do with above and below and in between."
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