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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Features I'd like to see in JRCOMM
Message-ID: <52363@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 18:30:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb3.075026.1923@ckctpa.UUCP> <910203.083436@lerami.lonestar.org> <26681@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR
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jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
< >231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (CS 231 section 2) writes:
< >>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! :-( 
< 

[ Description of cut-and-paste feature of Telemate deleted ]

I would suspect that if JRComm (or any other comm program) supports
some form of capture file, then you have all the tools you need to do
file name cutting and pasting.  For example, you log into a BBS or
other system to download.  You open the capture file, then list the
appropriate files.  Now, you toggle to WB, where you load the capture
file into your favorite speedy-whiz-bang text-file viewer, and find the
file you want.  Using Snap, you select the filename, toggle back to the
comm program, and paste it in.

The real beauty of this scenario is that you aren't limited by the
comm program author's notion of what makes 'good' navigation through
a view buffer.  Not to mention the fact that now you have a permanent
record of the file listing from the BBS, so you can review it later
to find some other file you might have missed, and you CAN still
scroll around in it while a download is in progress.

Remember, the Amiga has a feature called multitasking.  Use it.

Regards,
Chris

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