Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!uarthur!rpcfod
From: rpcfod@uarthur.UUCP (Robert Patt-Corner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacTerminal 3.0
Summary: Problems with MacTerminal
Message-ID: <18@uarthur.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 14:42:19 GMT
References: <4231@lib.tmc.edu>
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I do like the package, but having said that, the *worst* omission is
the absence of print passthrough in my opinion.  Our users are all
over me.

Re your questions:

1.	Clicking for cursor position does not work.  That's a pretty
	unique and interesting feature.  I didn't know the old one
	had it.

2.	The problem with serial tool being unable to hold a baud
	rate is a problem with the Shiva software.  I spoke with them
	and they were pretty unrepentent, treating the comm toolbox
	as some sort of unimportant beta software they'd get around
	to being compatable with in their next release.  No hint of
	an engineering special in the works.  I was frankly disappointed.

3.	Far as I can tell, the Apple Modem tool doesn't work with our
	Hayes compatible Practical Peripherals modems either ... or it's
	another face of the Shiva driver problem.

There's another known bug having to do with screen drawing -- try this:

a.	Run the VAX TPU editor (Edit/TPU) on a file
b.	Mark and cut a passage
c.	Move your cursor somewhere
d.	Paste the passage
e.	Hit the UpArrow

Wheee.  Watch a big illusory blank area open in your screen.

Having said all this, I think Macterminal is the deal of the year --
just wish they'd fix the print passthru!!