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to: DAVE GARLAND
from: ROY J. TELLASON
date: 1998-03-01 22:19:00
subject: msg_next

Dave Garland wrote in a message to Jun Martin:
 JM> Indeed, very ELEGANT.
 DG> Aw shucks, it was nothin'. :)
 DG> Thanks.  I did play with the menus a lot, trying to make the 
 DG> operation self-evident to novice callers.  It's a real 
 DG> challenge to make the purpose of some commands obvious to 
 DG> somebody who's never used a bbs before when you only have 10 
 DG> characters or so to describe them with.  Changed some command 
 DG> names, color-coded, grouped commands, and had some conditionals 
 DG> like that example, or where commands the user doesn't have 
 DG> access to are "greyed out", to entice them into upgrading their 
 DG> access.
I'd be interested if you'd care to go into more detail about any of this 
stuff.  I'm always looking for more ideas as to how to make my system better, 
and although I seldom do what others are doing,  looking at stuff can be nice 
to get ideas from...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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