/\  /\      BUGS & UP GRADES                                      2.0                              -------------                  1.3      ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ## 25 ##  PLATINUM SCRIBBLE! BUG AND UPGRADE  If you're using Version 3.05 of this program with WB2, there is a bug when trying to use the mouse - ie, it just doesn't work any more! You can get the fix, which is a patch, through the MicroSystem Software's BBS on USA (407) 7900774; or send in your master disk with US$9.95 and enough for air mail to the company in the US. SUPERBASE 4 V1.01 Computermate will upgrade if you send in $5.95 with the disk to: 9 High St, Mt Kuring-gai NSW 2080. MACRO 68 Now version 3, just send $45 (or use credit card) for the upgrade to: Digisoft 12 Dinmore ST Moorooka QLD 4105 NEW HORIZON'S QUICKWRITE This entry-level word processor now sports a new "3D" look a la WB2, automatic saves, default environment saving, Public Screens on WB2, Macro and ARexx enhancements, and more. RRP of this Version 1.1 is US$75, and registered owners of V. 1.0 can upgrade by sending the original program disk plus US$20 to New Horizons: P O Box 43167, Austin, TX 78745 USA. WSHELL MAJOR UPDATE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The popular AmigaDOS shell-alternative by Bill Hawes, creator of ARexx, is about to get a major facelift according to beta testers. Word on the nets is that they have been given permission to list the new features. Here is a list of new features compiled from a couple of BIX messages: o No more Mountlist entries. It comes with a program, DHOpts, which you run in your startup-sequence to have WShell take over CON:, etc. o WShell can be the System Shell. This way, whether you use NewCLI, NewShell, or NewWSH, you get a WShell. o WShell can 'take over' the current window. With a new keyword, INPLACE, WShell can take over the current window, instead of having to open a new one to get the WShell benefits. o DisplayHandler. WShell can now put a scrollbar on your CLI window, so you can scroll backwards to read text that has gone off the screen. Size settable to 32000 bytes of scrollback. o Transparent support of DOS resident lists. As well as WShell's own private Resi list, you can access any of the 'files' in the standard DOS resident list. WShell is even smart enough to only add things on its own list (which gets searched before DOS's) which are better/faster/etc. than the standard DOS programs (referring to the builtin commands such as IF, etc.). o Works with both 1.3 and 2.0, taking advantage of 2.0 features wherever possible. o Implements both backtick (') and dollar-sign ($) variable expansion, just like 2.0. o Command history now has numbers, so you call back a specific command by number rather than typing part of it and searching. o WShell is now smarter about quoted lines. The normal way to do a one-liner ARexx command in WShell was to start the line with a double-quote ("). This used to interfere with quoted filenames, however. Now ARexx string files must include a semi-colon (;), or not include the closing " in order to be automatically sent to ARexx. o If you run FComp under 2.0, WShell windows are registered as AppWindows. Drag an icon over the window and let go, and its name will appear in the window. If the icon has a TOOLTYPE of "FILETYPE", FComp will recognise and use this to modify the line that appears in you window. For instance, picture files could be dragged over a WShell window, dropped, and a file display program could be automatically called for that file. o The session history (the 32K max but settable buffer which records everything happens) can have a spill file which records what goes out. o You can paste from/to the clipboard to/from the command line. o The AppWindow interface lets you specify ``automatic'' actions for some filetypes, so that dropping an image file into a WShell window will start automagically your preferred viewer (which of course should be Mostra 8^). o The jump instruction lets you navigate with your shell through public screens!! Try JUMP NEXT POPUP and *poof* you're on turbotext screen!! o You can paste all the session content to the clipboard for further editing o Fcomp & PathMan are even better & faster than before, now they're really a must---I couldn't live without them. o You can have MENUS on each shell, which activete *everything* you'd like---visual attributes, special commands, external ARexx scripts... go wild!! o You have wildcard expansion with both the implicit and the explicit CD commands. This is by no means a complete list. Bill Hawes should be able to be reached at the following addresses: BIX: Whawes CIS: 72230,267 US MAIL: P.O. Box 308 Maynard, MA 01754  NORTHGATE KEYBOARDS For those of you with NorthGate OmniKey Ultra keyboards, they work great with the A2xxx series machines, but have problems with the A3000. It seems that upon rebooting, the keyboard will be "dead" for about three minutes when connected to an A3000. There is a file floating around called TCKNGTE.LZH that supposedly fixes this problem with the A3000. It is 948 bytes long, so not much of a download. The actual executable is only 96 bytes long and the source is only 673 bytes (assembly). I haven't tried it myself (my Northgate is on the A2000 at the office) but others have vouched for its success. Author = J. Moulton  BUGS   Problems with floppy drives and WB2 Seems that some Fujitsu floppy drives have a problem with Workbench 2, and the problem is still under investigation. WORKBENCH 2 "VIEW BY NAME" Gary McFeat tells us of a bug on WB2 with the Snapshot Window function - if you hve it "View by Name" then you can't snapshot sub-directories at all; but if you "view by icon" you can still snapshot the sub-drawers, etc.  (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 ))