Carl: For me, this outweighs all other considerations. My xyWrite interface
owes much to the best I ever encountered, the Leading Edge Word Processor's.
I see folks refer to long file names as a "modern" feature, but LEWP allowed
them 15 years ago. I loathed them. The internal dir structure they imposed
between the file and FAT was at best annoying and trying to resolve two names
for each file--long and FAT--wasted time. GEOS Ensemble too allows long
names, but mine never exceed 8.3, so I can always recognize them in a xyW dir
listing. I may be alone in actually *liking* 8.3 names. I'll nonetheless
check out The Book on dirl. I must admit that I've not read great chunks of
it. Most catalytic computer book in my library. Every page and a half of
browsing lights a new bulb and I set it aside in an xpl frenzy. As a result,
later I've found occasionally that I'd reinvented a couple of The Herb's
wheels, but at the time I was afraid I'd lose the thought. ...
Why am I unsurprised that you long ago wrote an xpl 2? <g> Haven't yet but
will XPLdeCODE it. I have to dl all code a few times and do FM/FDs to resolve
chars that get dropped when I log email. (My antique disk cache is the likely
culprit. Happens only a random char at a time, never with binaries, and
matters only with encoded stuff.) Thanks, Carl. :) --A
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