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From:	David Hogan <dhog@cs.su.oz.au>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 1993 00:01:45 -0400
To:	"Ozan S. Yigit" <oz@sis.yorku.ca>
Cc:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
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> > And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.

> just because he eliminated click-to-type? But look what Rob
> later wrote[1]:

> [...help quote elided...]

Yes, but help is not sam, and sam is not help.  Abandoning
click-to-type worked well for help, because every bit of text
on the screen is a potential command for help to execute, so
instead of having pop-up menus you have windows with commands
in them.  It's part of the overall design.  Sam was designed
to have a click-to-type policy, and it works very well the way
it is.  And besides, there is a long tradition of sam users
who have enjoyed its very click-to-type-ness, and probably
view this change as an act of desecration (I know I do :-).

``We're all in it together''  -  Brazil