In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/21/2005
at 03:19 PM, "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Back from the dead? Not unlike Mark Twain's experience, the rumors
>of WSA's demise were greatly exaggerated.
The rumors were that it was functionally stabilized. Given it's
current limitations, that's dead in the context of my message.
>A rumor got started that Raleigh wanted to stabilize WSA. (BTW, the
>rumor was true. But there's a tremendous difference between wanting
>to do something and actually doing it.) After the product was
>relocated to OZ, the decision was made *not* to stabilize WSA.
Are you sure? If so, that's good news.
>In a fairly recent conversation on this subject, the ISPF
>development team in OZ suggested that if I had specific
>requirements for WSA, they would be interested to hear what they
>were.
Well, the obvious requirements are
1. Allow multiline text and block cut&paste operations.
2. Support WSA on Linux, with C&P interoperability for KDE and GNOME.
3. ATTN support in WSA client.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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