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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Aug 1997.
Re: How to make animation????

Re: How to make animation????

miK wrote:
> >You cannot change that by :
> 
> >1. setting all windows fonts to a fixed one
> 
> Yup... I've changed every lay-out preference in the windows control
> panel. So right now i'm looking at a totally screwed up screen. ;) And
> you're right: THE ONLY THING THAT HASN'T CHANGED IS THE FONT INSIDE
> THE SCROLL BOX. Really, this is not a joke.

:)) Funny thing isn't it!?

> I'm not an expert - i don't know exactly what you mean by saying "It's
> not a bug, it's a feature" - but if your definition of a feature is "a
> fixed preference" i think you're absolutely right.

It's just an old joke: When you tell MS about a bug say usually
say, it's just a feature and that you misbehaved from the
programer's point of view. :)

> The question remains: is this intentional or by accident?
I guess they wouldn't know. Their minds are focussed on the
next millenium and multimedia homes. :)

Once I witnessed a 'bug-report' to MS about some really
annoying bug in FoxPro. This was 2 years ago. Guess what :
the newest version still 'features' this bug.

:)

Andreas

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From: Andreas Freise <fre...@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: Re: How to make animation????
Date: 1997/08/08
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