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From: dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Handshake gripes (please fix this)
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.205111.9415@unislc.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 91 20:51:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar17.014544.40347@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Organization: unisys
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From article <1991Mar17.014544.40347@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, by jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu:
> In article <910316.180915.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>, C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes:
>> 
>> For the record, here's another handshake bug that's been there since at least
>> 1.60b..   Under very low memory conditions or heavy fragmentation, try to open
>> the phonebook.  LOCKUP.  No messages, no guru.  No problems with the rest of
> 
...
> enough for my needs.... another (peeve) about handshake is that it produces a
> vertical line on the right of the character position when there should be a
> space sometime. I don't know why; the circumstances are when running VMS news
> and a couple others. I don't know if there is some alternate space character
> which he didn't define properly, but it's not there on a REAL VT220. Well,
> that's enough whining for one day...

This line occurrs when the BOLD attribute is set and a space is printed.

And now for my pet peeve:  Soft characters (a reprogrammable font)
DO NOT WORK!  We have several home grown applications and games that use
soft characters to turn a dull VT220 text terminal into a really snazzy
graphics display.  These programs work with real VT220's, VT320's, VT330's
VT340's, and wyse 75 and 99gt's (although not as well on the 99gt's)

Does the author read this group?  I'll have to try mailing him a
uuencoded example that he can copy into handshake through the serial port
and watch handshake produce spaces galore instead of the reprogrammed
characters.

If anyone knows how to make this work in handshake please let me know.
-- 
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