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From: drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Telecom program in a window?
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.025305.4559@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 02:53:05 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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I just happened to use a Mac II today, accidently to access our multimax while
I was waiting on a printout from an MS-sloth machine which I had to use to
run PSpice and Probe because there aren't any Amiga versions (that I know of).

Anyway, the Mac had a program (don't know much about them, only the second time
I've ever touched one, but the GUI is similar to the Amiga's so I was able to
run it) that opens a window on the screen (whatever they call their Workbench
screen) for the telecom program.  I gather that the standard Mac II graphics
has a higher resolution than the Amiga because it looked like the font was a
6 x 8 one but an 80 x 20 window only took up a little over a quarter of the
screen (6 x 80 ~= 480 so I assume the widthe is about 800 and 8 x 20 so I
figure the height is 500 or 600) but this was enough for me to wonder if there
was such an animal on the Amiga.  With a hi-res interlace screen and a 6 x 8
(or 5 x 8 if you are masochistic) font, a 80 x 20 window would take about a
third or less of the screen. 

Is there a VT-100 type telecom program that will use a Workbench window as
output?  The Mac one had a slider gadget for history, but I didn't check it
out long enough to see if it had any other features.

I would like VT-100 emulation, a capture mode, ZModem (maybe X modem too) and
that's about all I would request.  If this doesn't exist, I'll probably throw
something together just to see if anyone likes the idea.  I've already put
together a sample screen in DPaint to see how big the thing would be and it
looks acceptable for me (although non-de-interlaced individuals would probably
find it annoying).

Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)