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- From: matthias@oln.zer.de (Matthias Watermann)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
- Message-ID: <yIMPrAHIBh107h@oln.zer.de>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 15:36:02 GMT
- References: <11519@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In <11519@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley) writes:
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- >anyone who despises Helldiver? :-)
-
- Hmm, I'm just testing your program and I see that it catches all of the system
- resources: all other tasks (e.g. the clock) are stopped by Helldiver and it's
- impossible to switch windows while Helldiver is scanning the newsgroups-dirs.
- This search, BTW, takes a =very= long time, once I had to wait for about 15
- minutes (!) when Helldiver found a newsgroup with about 3.000 msgs.
-
- Another point is: I couldn't find a simple way to navigate through a topic
- (responses and replies to replies etc.). The sorting by subject as helldiver
- does seems to be a little step into the right direction (although it takes lots
- of time). But a full threading-support would be much better, I think.
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- >For the future, I hope to have version 1.08 released by the end of January,
- >which adds a few requested features and fixes a few bugs. After that, I'll
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- The main thing, IMO, would be to increase the performance (giving back idle-time
- etc.) Another nice feature would be an automatic word-wrap within the editor.
-
- >Cheers,
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- Matthias
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