Thus it was written in the epistle of Richard Gambrell,
> Stan Sieler wrote:
> ...
> > First,
> > PEOPLE DO NOT USE "MODIFY ALL" or "LOCAL/REMOTE".  (I.e., from a statistical
> > viewpoint, the number of people who do is so low as to be noise level.)
> >
> ...
> > be surprised to find an ordinary user saying "what the hell is Line Modify?".
>
> Since I've used the 3k since 1983 and never used Line Modify or Modify All,
> *except* to fix people's terminals at times when they hit the wrong f-key and
> turned them on and I'm at least a little more curious than the average user,
> I just *know* many of us in the 3k community are waiting for someone to
> explain just what these things were for!

I haven't a clue what Modify All is for, having never used it.  Line Modify
is for BASIC programming--that's why Wirt's used to it.  There is no
screen-based editing in BASIC and the best "modify" I know about is the one
in the phantastic PHANTASM.  But even that is more frustrating than just
listing the line, popping into "Line Modify" and making the necessary changes.
It's quite handy for that.  It just isn't a decent workaround for a situation
where unwanted returns are being forced upon one.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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