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From: weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: UniTerm 2.1a wishlist
Message-ID: <7934@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 88 16:38:48 GMT
References: <186@forty2.UUCP> <2866@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Organization: OSU College of Business...where the fun starts
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In article <2866@brspyr1.BRS.Com> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
>From article <186@forty2.UUCP>, by poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole):
>> mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqrkl, Richard K. Lloyd writes >Wishlist for
>
>>>6) Retain the screen display when switching from or to 132 column mode,
>>>   rather than clearing the screen and homing the cursor. 
>> 
>> Wrong! No VT1XX, VT2XX or VT3XX compatible terminal works this way,
>> all clear the screen and home the cursor. The command set of D*C
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>Sorry Simon, but I use an HDS2200 (VT-220 compatible from Human Designed
>Systems), that *does* retain the screen on size change.
>
>
>I kind of like the feature, but then again I don't switch screen size
>all that often.
>-- 
>Tim "The Enchanter" Northrup

	This "change size without clear screen" feature is also
found on the Wyse wy85 terminal (and, I believe, another vt2xx clone
made bye some company called Draco I believe.)  True, it would be a nice
feature to have, but admittedly not one that I'd die without. :-)

	I have been following this discussion, and if there is one
thing that I'd like to see (maybe this is in 2.0, I only have 1.8 as of
yet, and am looking for an arpa/uucp/ftp archive for 2.0) is a small
editor, perhaps in a window, that would allow one to edit a small file
while still on-line (without leaving Uniterm.)  This is the only feature
of FLASH! that I haven't seen Uniterm sufficiently beat the hell out of.
(As far as I am concerned, I have never seen such a nice term package as,
Uniterm, commerical or otherwise, including Procomm for the PCs, a nice
program in its own right.)

	Thanks again for Simon for making the world, at least the world
of ST, a bit of a nicer place.

	
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Andrew Weaver 				          weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
OSU College of Business				  soon:    weaver@osu-pisa.UUCP

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