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\letterto{NewTek Inc. \\ Video Toaster Technical Support \\ 
215 East 8 Street \\ Topeka, KS 66603}

Dear Cool NewTek Dudes:

I recently purchased a Toaster and I have a number of
complaints\slash{}suggestions.  I was never contacted by someone after
sending in my registration card, so I am resorting to the USPS.  (Do
you have an Internet address or read UseNet news?  Or do I have to
invest in BIX?)

First of all, I would really like to be able to get to the Workbench
(or at least a CLI) without exiting the Switcher.  I'm willing to
suspend the Switcher to do this, but it is a pain to have to exit and
reload the Switcher whenever I need to edit my controlling AREXX script.

Secondly, I would appreciate a {\tt toaster.library} to allow me (and
other programmers) to write software that can access the Toaster
functions.  If you do not have the time to develop such a library, I
would settle for enough Toaster technical documentation to write a
library on my own.

My third comment concerns documentation in general.  You have done
your usual wonderful job of making the manuals easy to understand.
However, I would like a lot more programming information.  How does
one create a chromafont?  How does one write an effect and map it to a
crouton?  What format does Lightwave use for its structures?  (I have
data in an ASCII file which I want to load into Lightwave as an
object.)  I can understand that these answers were omitted from the
Gamma docs, but I have found myself stymied by the fact that the
Toaster is set up as a black box.  As a reasonably competent
programmer, I would find a lot of use for these technical ``details.''

Finally, if you could forward to the Cool Friends of NewTek Club my
request for an application (I assume that the address in my DigiPaint
manual is out of date, since it differs from the one in my Toaster
manual), I would appreciate it.

\endletter{Much thanks,}
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