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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTerminal 1.1 and VersaTerm
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 17:26:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 17:26:14 1985
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> It sounds to me like you have discovered a 'feature'.  The file
> will go onto whichever diskette has the MacTerminal document on it.
> This can be used to your advantage.  For example, put the system and
> the MacTerminal application into a RAM disk, then put the MacTerminal
> document on an empty disk.  You can now transfer almost a disk full.
> 
> Another aspect of this feature (at least using Mac to talk to a UTS)
> is that you can close the document without logging off, move it to
> another disk, open it again, and continue where you left off in the
> same session!  I have used this to download several disks worth of
> net.stuff at one sitting.
> -- 
It's not necessary to close the current document.  Simply do a
"Save As" to get a dialog box.  Then eject the disk and insert a
blank one.  You may initialize at this point if needed.  Then
save the current document to the new disk (it helps if you have 
cleared the top of the document so it is as small as possible).  Now
anything you download from the host machine will go to the new disk.  
You have to be running off a copy of MacTerminal in a second 
drive or on a ramdisk.

By the way, if you aren't downloading files, putting MacTerminal on a
ramdisk defeats the infernal "inactivity disk startup" "feature"
that bugs so many (by making them quiet and fast!)

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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