Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AppleWorksGS Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <1990Oct18.152756.8663@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 18 Oct 90 15:27:56 GMT References: <1990Oct15.172901.21548@athena.mit.edu> <11301@claris.com> <1990Oct17.190723.13839@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1990Oct18.135317.29691@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Distribution: comp Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 26 In article <1990Oct18.135317.29691@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes: >With system 5.0 you can turn the menu bar on and off. Who needs scroll >bars on a VT-100 screen? I didn't know that. Oh well. As for scroll bars, *someone* will want them! >SnowTerm used the text screen for speed, note that it does have a menu I thought it used teh SHR screen to get fancy vt100 capabilities like blinking and real double-sized chars. I haven't used it since I never got it to work right on my machine. >This can be done, the question is, will Claris take the challenge? It may not be so much of a challenge in terms of coding, rather it might be more so in terms with keeping in line with the Human Interface Guidelines. It could be quite shocking to some poor dope if his menu bar vanishes, along with all of his other windows. The REAL solution, of course, is to have a bigger screen... -- 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..."