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Here, provided verbatim from the script's documentation, is a list of
questions I am frequently about the script, and things at least somewhat
related to the script. Enjoy!
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$Id: FAQ,v 1.3 2002/10/24 19:26:28 wd Exp $
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[Frequently Asked Questions]:
....1: How long have you been working on this / Don't you have a life /
Haven't you got better things to do?
....2: My status bars and boxes have funny looking 'A' characters and stuff!
What gives?
....3: What's that 'I' in the status bar?
....4: Where's the flood protection?
....5: When are you going to do ?
....6: Are you interested in ?
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[1: How long have you been working on this / Don't you have a life /
Haven't you got better things to do?]:
About two years. No. Haven't you?
Seriously, though. I've devoted a decent chunk of man-hours to this
script, and I do it because I like it. At first I just wanted to make a
script for myself. Then some of my friends started using it. Then I had a
community of users. Now I want to maintain a quality project.
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[2: My status bars and boxes have funny looking 'A' characters and stuff!
What gives?]:
This is one of those horrible font problems. Unfortunately, if you're a
foreign (non-us-ascii) language (character set) devotee, I have no good
answers for you. All I can say is that I have tried to provide
non-codepage-dependent varieties of formats for you. Ideally, I'd love
to see unicode support in the script so I could use linedrawing characters
and still support everybody's character sets. I'm not sure this is
anywhere near being realistic, though.
Oh, if you are just a us-ascii consumer, all you need to do is find and
use a 'cp437' (codepage 437, IBM DOS, ...) font for your terminal
application of choice. In X-windows this will be one of the nexus,
sabvga, vga, or similar fonts that are floating around. In Windows
(PuTTY or SecureCRT) it will be the Terminal font.
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[3: What's that 'I' in the status bar?]:
It stands for 'Insert mode'. It basically means that instead of overwriting
characters on the input line, you simply insert instead. If you hit the
'Insert' key on your keyboard EPIC will switch you from Insert to Overwrite
mode, and vice versa. It can be handy to switch back and forth depending on
your typing style.
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[4: Where's the flood protection?]:
I just haven't written it yet. I know this is mentioned in TODO, but it's a
very popular question. Most scripts do such a horrible job at flood
protection that having any at all is near-pointless. I'd like to avoid that
by creating a really nice system. On the other hand, there's lots of other
things I could be working on (in and out of the script) that interest me
more. Sorry.
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[5: When are you going to do ?]:
Excellent question. Please see the 'TODO' file (or relevant webpage link).
If your feature is mentioned there, that means I've already given it special
consideration and it will be coming sooner than if it wasn't. :) If your
feature isn't there, that means I either haven't heard of it, haven't
thought of it, think it would not be useful, or simply don't think it would
be possible to impliment. In any event you can contact me (see the README)
and ask me about it if you like.
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[6: Are you interested in ?]:
This is a weird question, but it basically boils down to one of a few things:
* Hosting: I've already got an excellent host.
* A new website: I'm perfectly happy with the current one.
* Women: My girlfriend would be pissed.
* Small presents: Absolutely! Contact me for details!
In any event, thank all of you for your continued support (I've reveived
lots of offers for lots of things from the community). Even if I turn you
down, the offer was still most assuredly appreciated.
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