Windows LFN's (HP NewWave)

[Bill Sheehan]

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.
>
>
>