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From: beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Procomm + not that great
Message-ID: <36300012@iuvax>
Date: 26 Feb 88 14:27:00 GMT
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!beckman    Feb 26 09:27:00 1988


I have been using the new Procomm Plus and have not found any tech problems
yet, but do find the user interface awkward, and no improvement over the 
original.  There is no consistent way to select menu items.  I use a mouse,
and it should't be too hard for the menus to be curser/enter/esc driven.
Some sub menus allow this (selecting terminal emulation) and at other points
I must hit a character A through G.  Also, if I don't quite move my mouse
vertically, I get a right or left arrow, which causes beeeepbeepbep. Why
can't a horizontal curser movement be accepted.  On the dial menu, If you
are doing a (R) for revise and you make a mistake, you can't move the curser
back up to that entry, like every other menu, you must complete all the 
changes and then (R) again, looping through everything again. And 
furthermore at other menus, a space bar is used to toggle items.  I wish
just one menuing convention was used.  Any others feel that way?

-Pete