Back in the day, I bought a copy of NewWave after reading a glowing review in one of the trade rags. As I recall, it was so slow you could get ahead of screen refreshes doing nothing more than typing. I still have the box sitting on my shelf, and one of these days I'm going to fire it back up again. -- Bill On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: > Just found the following snippet in a 1990 document (someone's > review of > a GUI show which they'd attended). Just struck me as interesting in > that > I never knew there was an alternative to 8.3 filenames in the > DOS/Windows world prior to Win95, nor have I ever heard of HP > NewWave before... > > Apparently also included macros/activity recording, associations > between > data and application (e.g. double-click on a spreadsheet file and it > opens in the spreadsheet app etc.), and context-sensitive help. > Sounds like a winner, only I've never even heard of it... > > Apologies to the original author (who almost certainly isn't on this > list!) for the cut & paste! > > (I do like that first line :-) > > ------- > > NewWave is a 'front end' to MSWindows to make them useable. It > provides a Filer facility which tarts up the MS-DOS filing system to > enable 30 character filenames with no obvious character set > limitations (ie it'll accept a space in the filename) and a > framework to interchange and combine multiple data types into one > document. This framework manages dynamic links between the document > and the original object which is contained in the document such that > when the document is reconstructed any changes to, say the > spreadsheet data, get reflected in, say, the report. Parts of > foreign objects can also be imported with the same results, eg a few > rows and columns of a spreadsheet can be imported to a > word processed document. > > >