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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Features I'd like to see in JRCOMM
Message-ID: <971@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 01:43:02 GMT
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vic@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Vic Rattlehead) writes:

>1) How about support for uw?  Right now, I use meshugena becuse it
>supports this and has very good emulation.  Unfortunately, it supports
>no file transfer or macros or scripts or anything.  

>2) How about improved vt100 emulation.  (Try using  VM/CMS, IRC, less,
>or emacs if you think this implementation is complete.)

  While there may certainly be a few incompatibilities or bugs in the VT-10x
emulations that remain unknown to me, they are going to still exist if I'm
not given sufficient info on what is not working correctly.

  I can vouch for the implementation of GNU Emacs on this system here, I'm
using it to enter this post, BTW.  As for the other stuff, I've got no access
to one of those systems or knowledge of the applications themselves, so
there's little that I can do for that.  If you can take the time to capture
the offending ANSI sequences I'd be more than happy to take a look and
attempt to repair them for the next version.

  There were a couple of fixes to the VT-10x emulations for 1.02 which is
close to release, but nothing that comes close to making them completely
unusable.

>3) How about making it live happily with other programs.  LaceWB gurus,
>Mach II's clock when popped to the jrcomm screen gurus.

  LaceWB?  haven't tried it.  Mach II?  Too much of a memory hog and it
blanks all sprites, not just the pointer sprite like Qmouse does, which
isn't a cpu hog either.

>4) File requesters that don't "lock up" on io errors and get stuck on the
>screen would be nice..

  Fixed.

>Admittedly, I've only tried v1.01 a few times at a friend's,it seemed
>worse.  We couldn't get vt102 to stop flashing everything on the
>screen, if you would hold the cursor keys down, the cursor wouldn't
>move until you release the key (The cursor would move, but the sprite
>wouldn't follow), and of course it still crashes taking the entire
>system with it..

  The flashing is due to not having the vtxx.fonts installed.  As for the
cursor, I've not had this problem, just tried it here to be sure...

  -jack-