Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!altman From: altman@tharr.UUCP (Hugo Fiennes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Arcterm7 Message-ID: <1950@tharr.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 91 16:07:54 GMT References: <1991Mar15.193340.23032@cs.utwente.nl> Reply-To: altman@tharr.UUCP (Hugo Fiennes) Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd Lines: 38 Re: ARCterm 7 >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. Look in the manual, it is clearly documented, you can have 2 spoolfiles open concurrently and either save raw data or plain text. >- 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. There is (on Release II) a 256-line history window (you cannow 'scroll back' the main window however, and the history is in black & white only, but you can select, save, print, send chunks of the buffer). >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 !!!). There must be some mistake. !TransArc is not supplied with ARCterm, and only one of the utilites supplied is in basic, and all work on all machines tested (from A3000's to A540's). It sounds much like your friend has either got a pirate copy (but some things are puzzling, ARCterm has always had a spool facility), or it has got modified on the way. Wierd! Hugo -- Hugo Fiennes --------------------------------------------------------------- -- "HAL, you're not IBM compatible..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK 0234 720202 -->