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    29-Oct-90  21:01:13
Sb: #7795-OSK Software
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)

Ed,

> BTW, have you joined? Nope, not yet. Where do I sign up .

Your comments on missing files, etc. are important to developers. We really
should decide on standard directories for init files, etc. With multi-user
systems it is a bit more complex since different users might need different
files/directories. It is not as simple as assuming that everyone has a
"/dd/sys" where all these kinds of files can reside.

Another thing we might look at is assigning new SVCs, port addresses additional
getstt/putstt constants. For example, I'd hate to see 6 different values for a
ss.screensize option--a program can handle things if the 'standard call' is not
supported, but if it returns garbage values then things can really fry. And
since MW did not bless us with an over-abundance (at least according to the
manuals, I've not looked at the defs files) of get/setstts I see all kinds of
new things developing, especially in the graphics departments.

BTW, is anyone keeping track of all these ideas?