Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!sean
From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: My wishes for vt100 R2.9
Message-ID: <8544@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 88 23:04:53 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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I'd like to see the protocols do more intelligent buffering of the incoming
data, especially kermit.  There's too much delay while the program writes
buffers to disk.  I've started using dnet for file transfers.  Despite it's
multiplxing overhead, it's windowed protocol along with no waiting for
disks makes for much faster transfers.

I'd like to see the emulation closer to perfect.

I'd like to be able to play with the special attributes.  For example,
I'd like to specify the color of underlining and highlighting.

I'd like to see the script routine rewritten as a state machine.  Failing
that, I'd like to see a multiway branch capability.

I'd like an iconize gadget in the title bar.  I'd like the "little" vt100
window to indicate activity by showing little bars that represent the lines
of text just like X-windows.

I'd like fancier menus.  Like, selecting a "protocol menu" would pop up
a window that would have all the gadgets related to file transfers.

Sean
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