Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: WinQVT gripes Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 21:19:29 GMT Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Lines: 29 OK, I've tried WinQVT 4.51 out for a few hours, and have noticed a few things that still bother me: The keyboard is not quite mapped correctly. Pressing Control-6 sends a 6 to the remote, while pressing Control-Shift-6 sends a caret ('^') followed by Control-^. Shouldn't both of these combinations send just ^^? Similarly, pressing Control-Break sends a ^C followed by a BREAK signal. This is a judgement call, but it seems to me that it should only send one. I'm used to MS-Kermit, in which it sends the break signal. Also, I would like to be able to redefine the keyboard in its various states, not just unshifted; I sometimes map keyboard macros to alt-letter combinations under Kermit, and it doesn't look like I can do that here. The font looks nice, but 80x38 (tall window) seems like a strange size to me. Maximized, the window is 91x40 (this is on a VGA, using the shareware font). Does anyone have a registered copy of this version? What are the window sizes like with the VGA font? Is the small VGA font readable? How about using the SVGA font on a VGA display? Finally, I can't make WinQVT my communications package until it improves its multitasking of file transfers. If I access my hard drive at all while it is downloading, it loses characters and has to go back. In contrast, WinComm's file transfers seemed completely bullet-proof; this was actually what impressed me most about the package. Oh, well. I guess it's back to Kermit and DSZ again... -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu