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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 and OnLine! and ATalkIII
Message-ID: <4718@crash.cts.com>
Date: 29 Sep 90 13:41:33 GMT
References: <31863@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <31863@nigel.ee.udel.edu> detert@lognet2.hq.aflc.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes:
>Well, (Marco)
>I just got my A3000 and am finally ready to give up on OnLine!.  I still
>like many of its features and never found anyone with ATalkIII to try out,
>so I've been sticking with it.  Anyway, in 2.0 mode the screen that OnLine!
>opens is about 4 times as long as workbench.  This has the effect that everyth
>scrolls down off the screen and I have to keep clearing the screen so I can
>see what is happening.  I suppose this is caused by the new display modes, etc.,
>but it is annoying and I DON'T like having to reboot into 1.3.  BTW.  Thanks
>to whomever wrote that reboot utility that lets you do that WITHOUT having
>to power down/up.  Anyway, what I'd like to know is:
>1.  Does anyone KNOW what is specifically wrong with OnLine! (Platinum)
>that causes this behavior?  And, is there a fix?

I finished an article for an Amiga mag recently - it was a comparison/review
of the current crop of Amiga terminal programs.  Online!Platinum was one
of them.  I made a chart to accompany my article and one of the parameters
on my this comparison chart was "Runs OK in 2.0?"  When I went to test
Online!Platinum in 2.0 I found what you did - it opened a window of
humungous size.  So after puzzling over this for a while I called Rawls
Sansome at MSS Tech Support in Florida.  Rawls explained to me that under
2.0, Online!Platinum thinks it's running on an A2024 monitor. So it opens
a screen with enormous dimensions.  He gave me a "NewZap"pable patch
to fix the problem (by patching O!P, not 2.0 :-) which I have lost in
the hurricane of notes on my desk, but he also advised O!P owners could
call MSS' support BBS for the same info and/or voice phone them to get
this patch on disk.  The patch, when applied, will correct the problem
you are experiencing with Online!Platinum. 



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