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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: JR-Comm
Keywords: vt-100 woes, snap woes
Message-ID: <26d4687e-28c7comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 01:59:38 GMT
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	It's very frustrating to have software that's 99% perfect...and have
that last 1% make it almost unusable.

	I finally got around to playing with my registered copy of JR-Comm.
For the most part, I like it...BUT:

	a) the VT-100 seems to be brain dead.  It acts funny from time to time.
I know that's not helpful...  One thing it does consistantly is fail to reset
the text color to normal after receiving highlighted text.  Definitely UnGood,
as I do almost all my telecommunicating with VT-100.  [In all fairness, 
switching to ANSI seems to be working out OK.]

	b) the review buffer doesn't exist, according to Snap.  This is enough
to put me off the program- the Unix site I call doesn't use rn or anything
similar; it uses AKCS, which doesn't do quoting (unless you use their abysmal
editor, and I refuse.  How bad is it?  I'm using VI at the moment...)  I've
been using VLT and have grown accustomed to snapping text from its buffer for
quoting.  I gave up on ATalk3 when (among other things) I realized you couldn't
open its buffer without bringing everything else to a stop.  I was happy to
see the split review option in JR-Comm...but if I can't snap from it, it don't
do me no good.

	Any chance of these things being addressed in a forthcoming version?


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