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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: ProTERM
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Date: 18 May 91 01:58:41 GMT
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grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol) writes:

>My only question for ProTERM is: Whay after all these years doesn't it
>support color and ANSI graphics, two things almost all other (even 
>COMMIE's!!) support!! I hope v3.0 (due out this summer) corrects this.

Think.  How are you going to get decent 80-column ANSI emulation with IBM
graphic characters and color codes without moving up to an Apple IIgs?
The authors have stated categorically that a IIgs specific version will
not be written.

You want ANSI text?  Either get AGATE, or an IBM.

>   John M. Grohol                    ||  Nova University                     
>   Internet: grohol@novavax.nova.edu ||  Center for Psychological Studies    

And dammit, ANSI doesn't have graphics.  It is just the extension of the
IBM character set, as MouseText is for the Apple II series.

--
///   ____   \\\  Lig       "By the way, what does teleport mean?"  "Where
| |/ /    \ \| |  Lury    does it say teleport!"  "Oh, right over here, just
 \\_|\____/|_//   Jr.     below the word Emergency, above the word `System',
greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu    and next to a sign which says `Out of Order'."