Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!indra From: indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Still looking... Good Win 3.0 Comm program. Message-ID: <1990Aug29.052544.3764@amd.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 05:25:44 GMT References: <1990Aug25.160852.25287@amd.com> <1990Aug27.234514.6869@chinet.chi.il.us> <3259@gmdzi.UUCP> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 26 In article <3259@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >>FutureSoft (the same guys that make the current Terminal) make the program >>and should be listed in your application reference guide if you want a #. > >All this sounds great, but ... > >The current Terminal is broken outside the US, i.e. it does not >work with non US keyboards. I reported this in a previos message. >Does DynaComm behave similar? > Terminal is not only broken outside US, but inside US too!! It drops characters arbitarily and its vt100 emulation is pitiful. The poor thing gets so confused that it becomes unusable. [eg. try using talk in UNIX while logged in using vt100 from Terminal and watch the fun.] And the 9600 baud limit is also unacceptable. Oh well... Terminal bashing is easy! >Wolfgang Strobl >#include -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088