Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!portal!sv!news
From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacTerminal 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.173432.10849@svc.portal.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 17:34:32 GMT
References: <4231@lib.tmc.edu> <18@uarthur.UUCP>
Sender: news@svc.portal.com
Reply-To: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Software Ventures Corporation.
Lines: 20

In article <18@uarthur.UUCP>, rpcfod@uarthur.UUCP (Robert Patt-Corner) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
	Just so you know, the problem here is NOT MacTerminal but REALLY
the Macintosh Communications Toolbox.  The CTB Terminal Manager does not
provide this capability (though I guess it could be made to) - but even worse
is that there is no way for a tool to tell an application that it can't
do something, so do it for me...
	From the first time we saw the CTB (seed 1), this was a big issue
of contention between developers and the CTB team.  No matter what we said,
we could not convince them that users NEEDED the host controlled printing
- especially print passthrough!  Maybe now that sites are trying to use it,
they will see the error of their ways....(so, Byron & Alex - I told you so!)
--
Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team