cak3g@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Colin Klipsch) (10/26/90)
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We may find it difficult to believe that other people's thoughts are
as silly as our own, but they probably are.
-- James Harvey Robinson
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This is just to announce that the most recent version of TappyType
(V 1.36) is now available. You can download it from the SUMEX
archive, or I can e-mail it to you if you e-mail a request to me.
The changes from V 1.3 are mostly cosmetic, although I did add some
more robust error-checking. This Christmas, I may be able to record
some more sounds to put in the next version. (A friend of mine is
currently building his own sound-digitizer.)
To those of you who read the October issue of Mac User, I wish to
correct a misleading statement they made about TappyType. TappyType
WILL work with Suitcase II if you use TappyType as it is shipped: with
a space as the first character. This ensures that Suitcase is loaded
and initialized after TappyType at startup time, which mysteriously
cures the problem. (With System 7.0, Suitcase II may be obsolete
anyway, so I haven't been too concerned about this odd
incompatibility.)
Also, somebody recently pointed out to me that TappyType doesn't work
in Microsoft Excel. It doesn't bomb, it just doesn't work. Using a
debugger, this gentleman discovered that Excel is doing some pretty
peculiar trap-patching and event filtering, so I do not feel the
slightest bit guilty.
As always, I want to encourage everyone who's used this silly product
of mine to pass on your comments to me. In particular, if you
discover bugs or incompatibilities, I STRONGLY encourage you to tell
me, since that's the only way I know about them. Lavish praise is
welcome also.
Cheers,
Colin Klipsch
Property of UVa Astronomy Dept.
Charlottesville, Virginia
InterNet: cak3g@virginia.edu