Paul, at 12:18 on Jul 23 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> You can now only exit from the area list with Esc, not Alt-X any more.

PE> I told you this.

BG> I know you did, but that still doesn't mean that I have to like the change.

PE> It was a mistake, and I have fixed it

By "mistake", do you mean it was an intentional change which you
have now decided that you don't like, or was it purely an accidental
omission?

PE> if you FREQ the latest alpha, or I can give you just the latest OS/2 one if 
PE> you want, up to you.

A file-attach of the OS/2 exe ONLY will do just fine thanks Paul.

BG> readkey 0x0061 areas   ; a = bring up Areas list (3.1)

BG> Same result as Alt-A, but with a single keypress of "a"
(lower case only).  
BG> Or it used to be.  Sure isn't now though.

PE> Oh, that's a good idea. 

It doesn't disable the pre-existing Alt-A though, just adds an extra
keystroke for the same function (as do all readkey and editkey commands).

PE> Anyway, change it to "readkey 0x0061 quit" and it MIGHT work. 

What will happen then is that pressing "a" will quit the program,
which is not quite what I had in mind.  I want it to bring up the
area-list, as before.

PE> Or just hit escape.

I have to now, and I also had to disable the readkey which trapped the
Escape key when exiting (I always used Alt-X until you disabled it).

BG> Oh yeah, format 1995-07-22 07:14:52.  Urk!  Whatever happened to DD-MM-YY 
BG> and the 24 hour time that you said like so much (i.e. 0714) ?

PE> MSGED is used internationally. 

Perhaps, but I've never seen YYYY-MM-DD used anywhere.  Not at all.

PE> And 17:14:15 IS 24-hour time!

Sort of.  The notation could be better though (not your fault).

BG> Apart from the exit and faulty "areas" problems, it seems
to be working 
BG> quite well so far.

PE> Ok, that's all operating as should be.

Yeah, it appears to be no less stable than 3.1 so far.

Regards, Bill
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