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From: space@ncc1701.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm (Was Re: AMIGA too slow for speeds higher than 9600 Baud? HELP!)
Summary: Lots of UN*X programs use the additional rows/cols
Message-ID: <339@ncc1701.sub.org>
Date: 2 May 90 20:04:45 GMT
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In article <1352@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>  Well, JR-Comm 1.0 will now inherit the size of the Workbench screen for
>  determining row and column sizes.
Glad to hear that. Since that was the only thing that bothered me, I am now
looking forward to the 1.0 release.

>  Well, the problem here is that ANSI (VT100 & IBM) "know" only 80*25.  If
>  there's some sort of bent variation to take advantage of a PAL display, I've
>  yet to hear about it.

Well, I took the vt100 definition file of a PC running ix/386 (I think it was
/usr/lib/termlib/v/vt100 or so) and searched for $50 (80). This byte I changed
into $54 (84). Then I looked for $19 (25) and changed it to 33 or so. Voila,
I had a Unix system with 33*84 characters. MicroEmacs 3.10, vi, elm, more,
nethack all used the additional rows and columns.

>>BTW, if I were you, I'd even give the user the choice whether or not the
>>terminal window should be borderless.
>
>  Just like MicroEMACS on the Extras disk, JR-Comm was "meant" to be run in
>  it's own screen.  Borders are useless in that instance...
Yes, that's true. But an option to run it in a window would be nice. This
Amiga habit of opening new screens for everything (even editors!) reflects that
the Amiga screen is way to small for a real GUI.

Nevertheless, I hope I'll see 1.0 soon.

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