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From: rneville@Apple.COM (Robert Neville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacTerminal 3.0
Message-ID: <46001@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 01:01:26 GMT
References: <4231@lib.tmc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:

>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?

Because MT 3.0 uses terminal tools the cursor handling is done by that Tool
in the content protion of the screen.  The developers chose to keep similar
behaviour in the cache.  Prior versions were all under program control and
thus could allow cursor positioning.  You gained some flexiblity but lost
a feature.

>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 Apple Modem Tool does not support Net Modems.  It is puzzling why it is
not remembering your settings and we will look into this.  Try using the
Serial Tool instead.
>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

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and they can always be sued.
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