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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: ProTerm bashing
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Date: 19 Jan 91 19:42:18 GMT
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In <7616@plains.NoDak.edu> swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) writes:

>Now I remember why I hate ProTerm so much!  I hadn't used it since the beta
>Kermit 3.87 came out, but tody I needed to used the scrollback and yep,
>ProTerm still drops chars all over the place...Krmit nevver does!

I've never had problems with losing characters from ProTERM.  Lines yes,
characters no.  Line loss tends to occur when I am online with no top bar,
accessing scrollback.  Another major annoyance is doing an ASCII Send
without the top bar.  It likes to recreate that bar for each line sent,
leaving a track of inversed characters in my scrollback, and then
restoring the wrong line in place of the insistent top bar.  That is a
definite bug.

Only other line-loss problem I had was with vt100 emulation, but that was
in v2.1 due to the 80th column problem.

>Mike

>P.S.  TWGS 7Mhz, System 5.0.4, 9600 BPS to my Sun, 2400 BPS out.

Perhaps you don't have it configured properly.  All the people I have
heard say that they had problems with ProTERM losing characters (in the
Control Panel even) are using GS/OS.  I don't use GS/OS (no hard drive, so
why bother with it) and haven't had any problems like that.

However I have noticed it suddenly slowing down for no apparent reason at
the main menu, and seeing the clock skip some seconds, but this may be
indicative of the problems I have had with the connection to my keyboard.
(Damn frustrating to discover you can't even hit control-reset.)

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