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Subject: DCOM
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 03:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 03:11:00 1987
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Jim.  I got DCOM, thanx.  It works just dandy.  It does support
the dual intensity cursor (hi intensity is inverse video).  In
fact, it looks just like SOFTERM (with the "old" Apple //e 80
column driver - pre-mousetext).  I still use SOFTERM's old driver
on my unenhanced //e's because I like the way it looks better than
I like the newer version (which had to be changed because of some
of the undesired effects it had in block mode).  I haven't tried
DCOM on my //c, but I'll get around to it this weekend.

If you just add a kermit capability to this thing the entire (HUGE!)
IBM-CMS world will just love you to death.  Most of our systems
support VT-100 (probably all do), and even the ones that do support
VT-52 are less than entirely satisfactory because the VT-52 doesn't
support the dual intensity video that is VERY useful in the IBM editor.

I have only one grunch.  Is there any way to "invert" the arrow keys
with the OA-arrow keys (that's the only difference I've found between
your keyboard and Apple Access II's).  It's rather a pain not to use
the arrows as cursor movement keys.  On those rare occassions when I
really do want the control character, I can hold down and Apple key
to get it (on our system Control-J is the "new line").

I've noticed one other "oddity."  If I hold down the OA-back arrow,
the cursor doesn't appear to move, but it later turns out that it really
has, and the mainframe and my Apple II no longer agree on where the
cursor really is (causing some problems unless I send the command to
refresh the entire screen).

Your documentation didn't mention that the Apple key plus RETURN produces
the keypad "enter" (just as Apple key and period produces the keypad
period).  The keypad keys are different from the regular (alpha) enter
and period keys and are used for other functions (clear screen and toggle
insert) in the IBM-CMS emulation (I haven't a clue why, but that's
the way it is).

This is one of the nicer sharware efforts I've seen.  You are to be
commended.  I'm looking forward to your updated (including file transfer
protocols) version.