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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm (Was Re: AMIGA too slow for speeds higher than 9600 Baud? HELP!)
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Date: 8 May 90 11:19:46 GMT
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In <1370@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>
>More to the point with regards to cursor positioning, I *do* range checking
>based on the legal (from JR-Comm's standpoint) size of the display.  What
>I'm still fuzzy on is if I should allow a non-standard display (morerow'd or
>PAL) go past the *normal* size since that allows the possibility of garbage
>accumulating along the outter edges of the legal (from the remotes standpoint)
>display size.

Absolutely! To do otherwise is unAmiga. Why, it's positively.... <shudder>
Apple-ish. :-)

Seriously, not all sessions will leave crud along the edge, or even make
use of the various capabilities of the emulator. When I dial in to work, I use
a VT100 emulator only when I think I am going to need its capabilities for
the one or two programs that actually require it. When it comes time to do
other thngs, I can enable a larger (in rows/columns) screen with impunity, and
get the use of it.

It is not the software author's job to decide for the user what is acceptable
in this regard. Limiting a program needlessly because of a possibility of
unsightliness when the program is misused takes away a degree of freedom of
choice, and doing so when there exists the possibility (on some systems) of
using the oversized screen with full VT100 functionality is even worse.

All of the above is IMHO, of course.

-larry

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