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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 01:44:33 EDT
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> I can't believe that I am reading comments praising MacTerminal.
> Maybe I got the wrong version, like maybe the special broken version.
> Is version 1.1 not the most recent?  

	Check with your dealer, from whom you *bought* it, to make sure that
you have a good copy.  1.1 is the most recent version, and I've had no
trouble with it.

> Anyway, whatever I have crashes
> with disturbing frequency (just starts beeping and beeping and
> beeping...) 

	I've never seen this bug.  Are you perhaps setting 'repeat
controls' and then running off the edge of the screen in vi?

> and has a VERY hard time keeping track of its
> configuration files.  There seems to be about a 50% chance of a config
> file working; otherwise MacTerminal thinks that "the document has been
> damaged".  

	The only way I've ever had it damage a document is if MacTerminal
is exited by any means other than an explicit quit, or the document is
edited by an editor.  This problem is common to all version I've seen of 
MacTerm.

> I used the pre-release version (-0.15? something like that)
> and found that it had problems printing selections, but on the whole
> was much more reliable than the current version.
> 
> Mike McNally		SMU
> mike@smu
> ...convex!smu!mike

	Feel free to keep using the pre-release, then!  IT has plenty of
bugs though.  Just don't badmouth a fine product like MacTerminal unless
you're SURE you know what you're saying.  Apparently you missed the
many articles in this group mentioning the damaged document problem...

			Bart Massey
			..tektronix!reed!bart