Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!cedman From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: VLT suggestions (was: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem) Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 05:47:15 GMT References: <91045.172115WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Feb15.050639.15863@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 15 Feb 91 05:06:39 GMT In article <1991Feb15.050639.15863@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes: > 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! Oh, my ! First, of all to slightly remove the smear of having me and MSDOS mentioned in the same sentence. I _do_ have rexx ! I already had rexx when nobody else had it ! :-) Second, I think my other suggestion about keymaps was exactly in the UNIX direction of having many tools each of which knows how to do one thing very well and cooperates with all other tools. Hence macros should be in separate keymaps editable by keymap editors. Third, I still do think that each application should know how to do 'its' things very well. Part of this for terminal programs is being able to send short text files directly to the display as if typed. Just like a unix shell knows about 'echo' or 'if' internally. Carl Edman "We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do." -- Auberon Herbert Send mail to Carl Edman