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Subject: Re: Features I'd like to see in JRCOMM
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Date: 4 Feb 91 03:45:23 GMT
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In article <926@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (CS 231 section 2) writes:
>
>>Here's a small list of the includes I'd like to see to jrcomm:
>
>>1) In the file transfer window have % efficiency for transfer.
>
>  Is this *really* neccesary?  You've already got a chars/sec.  I mean, do I
>need to post every possible kind of stat that can be computed?
>
>>2) Have a scratchpad so I can put all my miscellaneous stuff on it like
>> 
>>    :-) is a smilie
>>    (402)421-1963  SWL BBS   6316 files!
>>    Dr.Death is also known as Mr.Death
>> 
>>   Prefferably a huge screen of string gadgets (like the MACRO editor).
>>   Pasting and clipping can be used with SNAP!!  :-)
>
>  Clipboard support will be added.  As for this, it may be better to just save
>this to a file and massage it into a script to load the macro keys (for the
>1.1 version, which will have scripts).
>
>>3) Have a complete status feature.  It keeps track of how many times
>>   you've called a BBS, the number files you've up/downloaded from the BBS,
>>   the files you transferred, 
>>   the date and time you last called it, the length of the session, and the
>>   accumulative total of your PHONE BILL!  Preferrably stuck in the phonebook,
>>   like click the STATUS button and click the BBS you want info on.
>
>  A complete call/usage tracking facility will eventually wind its way into
>JR-Comm, doubtful for 1.1 though.
>
>>4) Scripting (but who needs it!  If you're that despirate for script languages
>>   just use NCOMM the few times you want to use it)
>
>  Yep, 1.1 will have scripts and ARexx.
>
>>5) Make the VIEW-buffer a task, so we can STILL scroll around in it
>>   and read it s while we're up/downloading (Z-Term allows this! :-( 
>
>  The 1.02 version will close the capture file prior to starting a file
>transfer so that you can load it into the text reader of your choosing.  It
>will also reopen the capture file (append mode) after the transfer completes.
>Is that sufficient?  I can't see incorporating the code into JR-Comm for what
>would essentially be my idea of a text reader, which is almost surely not your
>idea of what one should be...
>
>  -jack-
Yeah, but is the VIEW buffer stored to a file, not  the CAPTURE file?
 
=====

Well, as long as you incorporate AREXX, my options I wished for can easily 
be added!  I never considered using AREXX to do this until you said the
new version would have it!
 
Now I can assign F10 (or menu item) to load up the ScratchPad etc! (of course
it'll load up some 200k wordprocessor to accomplish what a small 3k addition
would do...... :-)
 
wow!
Phil Dietz

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