Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AppleWorksGS Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <1990Oct17.190723.13839@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 19:07:23 GMT References: <1990Oct15.172901.21548@athena.mit.edu> <11301@claris.com> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Distribution: comp Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 40 In article ghost@bucsf.bu.edu (Jay Adelson) writes: > >In article <11301@claris.com> jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) writes: > > From article <1990Oct15.172901.21548@athena.mit.edu>, by pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Patrick Gannon): > >[Clip] > > >> 1. Is there any way to get the terminal to emulate a VT100 or any > >> other standard terminal configuration? (patches or commands I > >> missed or otherwise?) > >>No. There is not enough resolution on the graphics screen for readable >>text of 23 lines. You can only get eighteen. Sorry. > >What this has to do with it I don't know. I've used SnowTerm on several >occasions, and if I'm not mistaken, the FONT is of the issue here. >> -- >> Syd Polk | Wherever you go, there you are. >> jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light. >> jazzman@apple.com | These opinions are mine. Any resemblence to other >> GO RICE! GO 'STROS!| opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence. > >[ Jay Adelson | BIX: j.adelson ] [ T.G.C. ] >[ ghost@bucsf.bu.edu | Channel One: ] [ 1039 Commonwealth Ave. #18 ] >[ GEnie: J.ADELSON1 | Jay Adelson ] [ Boston, MA. 02215-1008 ] The issue here is that Snowterm doesn't have a menu bar or put the terminal in a window. Snowterm only does terminals which AWGS does other stuff. Therefore AWGS *must* display things by the book. Once you've lopped off the screen real estate for a menu bar and window title bar and grow regions, you've knocked away a good deal of space. You just can't put 24 readable lines on the screen at that point. *That's* why there's no term emul at all. -- Dave Whitney | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug Computer Science MIT 1990 | reports. I need a job. Send me an offer. dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu | My opinions, you hear? MINE! dcw@athena.mit.edu | "Isn't this where..."