Conference hydra::amiga_v1

2390.0. "For the XCAD users" by HPSTEK::DAVIS () Wed Mar 22 1989 16:28

        I have just received a copy of XCAD Utilities from Harry Evangelou,
    the XCAD technical  support  person.    He used to work for Haitex, who
    used to sell XCAD.    None  of  this is terribly relevant to this story
    anyway.
    
        What is relevant is that  on  the XCAD utilities are several *very*
    useful things.  Most useful for all users of XCAD is the four different
    screen menus that take a lot of  the  drudgery  out  of  entering  XCAD
    commands.  For those of you who have used XCAD, you'll remember that to
    draw  any  thing  requires  much movement of the cursor.   These  menus
    reduce that.
    
        Also  included is something called "morerows", and "more", I think,
    that allow  you  to  add  more  rows  and columns to your display.  The
    screen menus are  supposed  to  ce  cunningly  built to fit outside the
    drawing window when using  the  maximum  of 716 (allowed by the flicker
    fixer) x 478.  This  also will allow the command window to be moved out
    of the drawing field.  Note  that you 1000 users will run out of screen
    memory long before you get to 716.    No  fat  agnus,  no 1 meg of chip
    memory.
    
        If any of this interests you, send me  a  blank  disk, I'll copy it
    and send it to you.  It's shareware and there is a story that goes with
    that.  You can reach me at:
    
                Brad Davis
                MRO1-3/T4
                297-6957
                (603) 595-9674 sometimes I'm home
    
    
    Brad