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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Telcom Program of the Gods
Message-ID: <3838@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 04:52:14 GMT
References: <766@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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>   What I'm looking for is suggestions.  What you want, what you don't
>want, what kind of user interface it should have (I'm looking at a
>text implementation of mac-like menus), anything at all you like and
>don't about the current generation of communications programs.  Given
>enough input from users, I should be able to make a truly great
>program (given enough time, too).

Some of the great things about ProTERM:

1)	Boots up fast
2)	Gigantic scroll-back buffer
3) 	flexible cut/capture/paste/edit
4)	Paged Text File dump

What I'd like:

1)	Better transfer protocol handling
2)	More informative transfer stats.  Most IBM comm programs tell
	you all kinds of things while transfers are going on.
3)	Character editing LANGUAGE for the editor, so you can custom
	process funny downloads
4)	Gigantic Copy/Edit buffer
5)	Built in macros
6) 	ProTERM Special Emulation built in
7)	Key/Screen code remapping for custom terminal emulation
8)	Auto-wrap
9)	Command Line Interpreter for ProDOS
10)	Hooks for users to patch into the telecomm routines directly
11)	SPEED and KEYBOARD equivalents for these menus you are talking
	about...I hate slogging through menus to find options.
12)	Special Character support

Dave Seah (dseah@wpi.wpi.edu)