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From: kortink@utis96.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Arcterm7
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.105054.14407@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 24 Mar 91 10:50:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.193340.23032@cs.utwente.nl> <1950@tharr.UUCP>
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Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
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In article <1950@tharr.UUCP> altman@tharr.UUCP (Hugo Fiennes) writes:
>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.

Who reads manuals :-). Sorry, I'll tell him (if he's not read the manual
already.

>>- 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).

Well, his version must be release I then. Thanks for adding it !

>>The utilities disc is a disaster really. None of the apps would work,
>>!TransArc giving [...] 
> 
>There must be some mistake. !TransArc is not supplied with ARCterm,
>[...]
>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!

No need to be paranoid. He's got the real thing, and I will be buying a copy
soon. The utilities disc was amended by himself (he himself uses RISCOS 3,
and added !TransArc), which I would have found out if I asked. I hope I have
not been too naughty in making a copy for myself to evaluate...

Another thing : it keeps de-selecting his modem (a Discovery 2400e) after
a dial ! Which driver should be chosen, and why are you f**kin around with
the modem's DTR ?

John Kortink

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