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From: boyd@fsucs.UUCP (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: UniTerm -- program of choice?
Message-ID: <645@fsucs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 90 04:38:11 GMT
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Reply-To: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
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To: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell)
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In article <36003@cup.portal.com>, Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes:
>I was curious if UniTerm is the comm. program of choice for the ST?  What are
>the popular terminal programs for the Atari ST... Thanks alot... Yboy

I have Uniterm, and do use it on occasion, but my real favorite is Flash 1.6.
It is not as snazzy, but has some features that I like.  I especially like the
way one can switch between the capture buffer/editor and the terminal screen
with a single mouse click.  The find string function (in the capture buffer) 
allows me to locate obscure stuff that I did quickly ("Hmmm, did I really 
delete that file??").  Thus, every session has a complete log that I can 
search through either by string or by GEM slider bar.  It does not support
Kermit (it has Xmodem and ascii u/dloads), but there is an desktop accessory
that provides this.  My only annoyance is that when on a mono monitor,  
underlined text looks great UNLESS you are using TurboST (it does not come out
as underlined at all under Turbo).  This program would benefit a lot from the 
faster screen routines in Turbo (in the GEM editor/capture screen), but I 
need my underlines!!!  This was discovered on a friends system, and is the 
reason why I have not invested in TurboST (I believe the version was 1.6).  
Does anyone know if the newer version has this same problem with Flash?  What 
about QuickST?  I would buy one of these programs if Flash would work correctly
with it.  I keep Uniterm around for two big reasons:  Kermit and itty bitty 
fonts (which I sometimes need).  For the daily grind however, I prefer Flash.
 
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