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From: peter@cbnewsc.att.com (peter.pavlovcik)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Attention! - Windows Comm. Program
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.192338.25085@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 19:23:38 GMT
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>Anybody thinking of buying a commercial package would be well advised to
>wait for a few weeks and get by with what you are currently using.  I am
>currently beta-testing a Windows communication package, Wincomm, which
>is about ready for release and, at least for my needs, blows away all
>the other packages I've used.  It has an extremely powerful macro
>language which allows creation of menu bars, full feature dialog boxes,

But can it display 24 lines by 80 columns on a VGA without going into
a full screen mode? If it does, I'll buy it on the spot, but I bet
it doesn't.

Here is my tale of woe & intrigue. All I need is a dumb async
terminal emulator that can show 24 lines by 80 columns of fixed font
in a window smaller (maybe just a bit) than a full-screen. According
to my calculations, this is theoretically possible (5x10 or 7x12 pixel
character cells for example).

MS Window Terminal does not do this, so I looked around. I was assured
by Dynacomm rep that their emulator can do this. So I shelled a
fortune for it, and guess what? It tries to emulate a smaller font
by BitBlt-ing large font character to smaller size -- one character
at a time! Which 1) makes the characters unreadable and 2) makes the whole
thing run abominably slow. I can't believe that they actually
get away with selling this junkware for a small fortune. After that
experience, I gave up on terminal emulators, since I had a dumb terminal
sitting there anyway for Codeview. Now that 3.0 cvw can't use it, I had
to replace the dumb terminal with b/w monitor, but I need a dumb terminal
emulator. Anybody knows of one? I am willing to pay (again) mucho bucks.
But this time I want a demo disk first!!

				Peter Pavlovcik, att!iexist!peter