Re: LLUCE vs. METAL: A losing battle

[gberigan@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Greg Berigan)]

thompson@UMDSUN2.UMD.UMICH.EDU (joshua m. thompson) writes:
> gberigan@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Greg Berigan) writes:
>  
> >Oh great, FV 5.0.  Looks like another LD call is in order.  Say, has there
> >been a change in the code that allows users to disable hot keys yet?  I'm
> >getting tired of recoding the whole system to use bit(57) as a hot-key flag
> >every time there is an upgrade.
>  
> Gee, I'm so glad everyone is so appreciative of my work.  Considering I've be
> working on it constantly for 3-4 years and it's now freeware, I would think
> someone would have SOMETHING nice to say here (you don't even have to like it
> just say something nice).  Ask Greg how close I am to trashing everything.
>  
> _I_ have not released an update to FV in about a year.  As to what Mr. Wilson
> does I can't attest since I don't do this ridculous updates.
>  
> There will be disable-able hotkeys in 5.0 if I finish it.

Damn, I hate it when I write something and I fail to gauge the 
temperature.  I do like FV, it is just that every time METAL gets
upgraded, there is a new version of FV out, usually with changes to net 
code which as yet I don't use.  (Difficult to run as a net node with one 
5.25", one 3.5" (800K), and just recently a 1600K RAMdisk -- before now I 
had to cut out a lot.)
 
Last version I saw (to memory -- no disks to check where I am now) was 
4.0dsomething.  Downloaded in I think November.  I had posted my mod on 
Tc's system, but didn't see a reply (but I call infrequently).  Included 
ability to chain commands if I remember right.
 
I have other gripes with METAL, some minor, such as "M)oniter" instead of 
"M)onitor" and "Loose all text" instead of "Lose all text" hardcoded in 
the system, which would seem to be simple changes.  Well, maybe all my 
gripes with METAL are minor.
 
berigan@platte.unk.edu