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From: kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Arcterm7
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.193340.23032@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 91 19:33:40 GMT
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About Arcterm 7 (is Hugo listening ?)

A friend of mine bought this, and I have had a thorough look.
It is a real relief to be able to work in the desktop like
with any other app. The script language is another one of its
good points.

There are several serious shortcomings though :

- There is no facility for spooling what goes on on your terminal.
  This is really bad. It should be dead easy to add this.
- There is no facility to scroll back (i.e. get a 'history').
  Harder to add (Hearsay cheats by updating on character boundaries,
  and memory is short on 1Mb machines, but it should be possible to
  make the terminal window sprite larger.

Both functions can be found in Hearsay, and I use them extensively.

The utilities disc is a disaster really. None of the apps would work,
!TransArc giving procedure parameter errors (and indeed, the BASIC
program is simply utterly wrong), the other utils conplain about an
unknown filing system (Filer_Opendir used with system variable, we
don't all use RISCOS 3 !!!).

How about it Hugo ? Or have these already been added/corrected.

John Kortink

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