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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: <52549@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 91 18:20:54 GMT
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jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
< Problems (using capture files and snap for cutting and pasting):
< 
< A)  You would have to save the buffer to open it in another screen.
< (This takes more time, especially when you are on a BBS which
< has a time out value...)

I realize that most BBSs have a timeout value.  However, the process I
described in my earlier article should not take the average Amiga user
more than 5 or 10 seconds to execute.  I would suspect that JRComm
supports a keystroke to open and/or close a capture file, and it is
almost second nature to me now to use Left-Amiga-N and Left-Amiga-M to
toggle back and forth to the Workbench.  If time is such a critical
factor, then simply have the text-file viewer loaded before you start
your communications program, or use Parm, MyMenu, of HandyIcons to add
it to a Workbench menu.

< B)  Snap does NOT work across all fonts.

This could be a problem, except for the fact that, of all of the fonts
that have failed to work with Snap, I have yet to find one which would
be acceptible for terminal emulation (or Workbench, for that matter).

< I trust Jack to write it well... :)  Jack could make
< Jr-Comm internally multitasking.  Else, once could still save
< the capture buffer (as he would have to in order to follow
< your proceedure) but one one would not be faced with the 
< time it takes as per your method.

I would also trust Jack.  In fact, given the features list of the
next(?) release of JRComm, I may be able to start using it, and send
him a check.  The only reason I don't use it today is that I need
kermit for file transfers to and from work.  If XPR support is 'in
there', he'll get my vote.  Nevertheless, I would still prefer the file
capture method to any view buffer, simply because it does give me that
permanent record of the files on whatever host I am accessing.

< Well, let's see.  I run Paragon (or did you miss my .signature)
< so I usually have about 30 tasks online.  I think I
< utilitize multitasking...

Sorry about that.  I sometimes get too hasty in my trimming of
'excess lines', so I did miss your .signature.  No slight was intended.

Regards,
Chris

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