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From: drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez)
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Subject: Re: MacTerminal 3.0
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Date: 26 Oct 90 15:42:15 GMT
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In article <46001@apple.Apple.COM> rneville@Apple.COM (Robert Neville) 
writes:
> >One of my favorite features in MacTerminal is the ability to 
option-click 
> >on the screen and have the cursor go to that location.
> 
> 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.

This is unfortunate, since I'm using VT100 emulation through a protocol 
converter to access an IBM mainframe, where you have to move the cursor 
all over the screen, not just the command line. I'll just look at this as 
another incentive to finish porting our 2000-subroutine libraries to the 
Mac so that I can switch my development to MPW. I never like the IBM's 
file system anyway.

David Gutierrez
drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard