Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mullian!ianr
From: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Ian ROWLANDS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PAL vs NTSC screen sizes in coms progs
Message-ID: <4421@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 7 Jun 90 14:24:36 GMT
References: <8750@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
Reply-To: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS)
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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In article <8750@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>Further to an old thread in which some US folk claimed they couldn't
>imagine any use for a terminal emulator with more than 24 lines...
>
>I just worked out how to set the line number on VMS! Now I can read most
>news posts in a single screen. Now, why isn't this better than a smaller 
>screen?

	Whoever said the first statement originally is out of their mind. I
use terminal programs that sometimes require vt100 emulation. I have tried
most of them (PD ones), and I use VLT. Why? It supports more than 24 lines
on a screen. I use it's basic default (i.e 40). I can't find any other terminal
program which does this in a half decent way. Some others do 48, but that
seemsd too much (I've tried it, but don't like it). When I require colour and
other pretty things for calling BBS's, I use JRComm. When I ring the university
and expect to need vt100, I use VLT and it's 40 line length.

	I read news on three different terminals - my Amiga running VLT, a
vt100 terminal around uni, or a Sun 3/50 console. The sun is the best, as it's
window is about 54 lines (just a guess). Who says you don't need more than
24 lines in a terminal emulator?

				Ian



Ian Rowlands                      | ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (main)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,  | ianr@gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au
 (including Computer Science)     | ianr@munmurra.cs.mu.oz.au (to 7/90)
University of Melbourne           | (How can you have a funny quote in only 4 li