Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: VLT suggestions (was: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem) Message-ID: <1991Feb15.050639.15863@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 05:06:39 GMT References: <91045.172115WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19 > For one thing this requires REXX which not everybody has, and for > another I think that such an extremely basic thing should be doable by > the terminal program itself without messing with transfer protocolls > a.s.o. just to send a local two line text file into your remote editor > buffer. You're quite wrong on this point of course! The view that applications should `know' how to do everything is a very MSDOS way to look at things. Side points: REXX is cheap, Willy's time is not. REXX macros can be hand tailored by *you*, this is a very powerful, side point, BTW... If you don't have REXX, you're missing out! Loren J. Rittle -- ``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would not* be made to directly support the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' -A scene at the recent MacExpo. Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so worried about one little Amiga Device... Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu