Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!unixhub!slacvm!wglp09 From: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: VLT suggestions (was: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem) Message-ID: <91045.172115WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 15 Feb 91 01:21:15 GMT References: <1718@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb12.134052.27100@sarah.albany.edu> <91045.113010WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lines: 26 Carl - 1. All protocols in VLT *are* external, have been since 4.824. The fact that there are still menu options for Kermit and XMODEM setups separately doesn't mean that it doesn't use the external protocols. Take away the corrsponding XPR libraries and it will complain. Kermit and XMODEM are treated separately because that is what people here at SLAC are familiar with. 2. There *is* a simple ascii send command: it is the ARexx script SendASCII.vlt, which can easily be made into a menu option in the user menu so it has a keyboard abbreviation. It does all the XPR switching for you and even sets it back to the protocol you used before. 3. That Save in the review buffer overwrites the previous file is a feature. If you don't want it to do that, don't select it... 4. A lot of keys in VLT are programmable. For special occasions you can use the WEDGE command to intercept all keystrokes. The Intercept.vlt script gives you an example of how this works, and the marginbell.vlt and autowrap.vlt execs give you some examples to play with. If the ARexx versions are too slow for your taste, you can write faster versions in C. You can even use WEDGE to block all keystrokes and use Fifo pipes to write a filter. Willy. ---------- Willy langeveld - Bitnet: WGLP09 @ SLACVM - BIX: langeveld