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From: drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacTerminal 3.0
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Date: 24 Oct 90 16:14:26 GMT
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I just got MacTerminal 3.0. It looks nice, but I'm having a few of 
problems that may make me (and everyone else here) stay with the old 
version.

One of my favorite features in MacTerminal is the ability to option-click 
on the screen and have the cursor go to that location. I can't find any 
way to make that work in MacTerminal 3.0; neither can I find any 
references to it in any portion of the manual. Am I doing something wrong, 
or did they actually remove this capability?

My second problem is that no matter how many times I save my settings or 
create a new settings document, MacTerminal 3.0 won't remember that I'm at 
19,200 baud (a direct wire connected to the modem port). It keeps dropping 
down to 9600. This may have something to do with the modem attached to a 
Shiva NetSerial on our network.  The Shiva INIT insists on accessing the 
modem whenever a serial port is opened. I'd prefer that this was done only 
on demand, but that's neither here nor there.

The last problem I have is that the MacTerminal 3.0 modem tool refuses to 
recognize the existence of the aforementioned modem attached to the 
NetSerial. Is there another tool I need for this purpose?

OK, "just one last" gripe - not related to performance. The manual MacTerminal 3.0 comes in an attractive ring binder. Unfortuneately, the one I got has the problem where the rings don't meet each other, so that every time I turn a page, it slips out of the rings and/or tears a page. How about a little quality control, Apple/Claris/whoever?

David Gutierrez
drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard