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From: king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: JRComm -- Text attributes?
Message-ID: <4639@orchid3.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 91 16:26:46 GMT
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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Well, this weekend I got the latest and greatest JRComm (1.01?) up an running
on my machine.  Nice program, but I couldn't find a way to get text
attributes (underline, boldface, etc) to work in vt100 or vt102 modes.  I
call two Unix systems and those things are pretty important to me.  I threw
the display into hex mode and saw that the systems were indeed sending the
codes, but JRComm wasn't reacting.  Am I missing something ridiculously
simple here, or is the program really crippled?

Also, is it just me or is the scrolling abysmal?  I've tried every
combination of "optimized" and "smooth" (both set, neither set, etc.) and
couldn't find a way to make it less jerky without taking a day and a half (in
smooth mode) to scroll up a page.  With smooth set it's just too damn slow,
without it it flickers worse than any interlace screen I've ever seen.  And
this is NOT in interlace!  I tried reducing the number of bitplanes but to no
avail.  Again, am I missing something?

If I can get around these two limitations I'll consider sending in the
shareware fee and getting a registered version.  Until then, I'll just keep
on using my aging version of ATalk III.

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