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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VT100 v2.9 problems.
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Date: 26 Oct 89 02:47:50 GMT
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It seems to me that almost all I've seen are problem reports regarding
VT100 2.9.  Gee, Tony, it must get pretty frustrating, eh?

Well, this isn't another problem.  No, this is thanks instead!

In a recent message, Tony Sumrall writes:

>> Hmmmm...I compiled with Lattice and [...lots deleted]

I picked up the sources some days ago, compiled them with Manx 3.6a, and
didn't get a single warning or error.  The resulting binary seemed to
work just fine, although I didn't have the time to test it thoroughly.

Today I made the 'customary' changes (stuff like moving the window down
one pixel to expose the screen depth gadgets...), recompiled, and
started to tweak my existing scripts for it.  (Slight script tweaks
required because lately I've been using VLT for its AREXX support, but
only using a fraction of its features... It's nice, but it's H U G E.)

No problems at all so far.  Same goes for the zmodem stuff - clean
compiles and it works just fine.

While I haven't used it yet, I can see that FORWARD is going to be very
handy.  Doesn't that make this the first PD/shareware type terminal that 
can do multiple-branch ON...GOTO stuff?

Just a bit more work to get my AREXX function hosts 'wired in' (maybe the
rexxarplib file requestors, too) and I'll be ready to use 2.9 fulltime,
freeing maybe 80K of precious disk space on my non-hard-drive-equipped
system.

Nice job, Tony!  Looks good so far!  I guess the long wait was worth it
after all.


Rick Plavnicky
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