[bookport] Re: Progress and the Book Port

  • From: "Angie Matney" <armatney@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:06:32 -0500

Agreed. But it was billed as progress. <grin> I personally agree with what you 
said in your eloquent message, and I don't 
attribute the lack of this functionality to progress. But I do hope we get it 
back very soon! How about using the 5+8 key 
combination for that?

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:46:43 -0600 (CST), Bruce Toews wrote:

>Thanks for the explanation. I can understand where you're coming from 
>here. I submit that it wasn't the progress that lost that announcement, it 
>was a judgment call.

>Bruce

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>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Angie Matney wrote:

>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> This used to be part of the "statistics" command. This command was modified 
>> to give information about the size of 
the
>> flash card, among other things. It was decided that the resulting string of 
>> information was too long. So instead of 
saying,
>> "thirty percent of file.txt" and giving the exact file size, it now says, 
>> "thirty percent of 50 kilobytes," or whatever. I 
don't
>> care much about the exact size, but I have truly missed that filename 
>> keystroke ever since we lost it.
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:15:43 -0600 (CST), Bruce Toews wrote:
>>
>>> Did we ever get an explanation as to why that keystroke was lost? I wasn't
>>> around when it happened.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>



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