Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: UniTerm 2.1a wishlist Message-ID: <193@forty2.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 88 01:47:56 GMT Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich Lines: 30 rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes >add to wish list: (what about Concentrix supporting longer login names :-)) > 1) make it work from gulaam (my copy of 2.x does not, or is it me?) > works ok from desktop (old ROM, no blitter, 1040, HD) Must be you, are you starting it with the 'gem' command. > 2) ability to invoke arc or less (or any command for that matter) > (maybe it does now...not being able to invoke from gulaam forced > me back to v1.7b and i haven't really read new docs) You can start any program from UniTerm (as long as it doesn't use to much memory), caveat: some shells seem to confuse Malloc, which in turn messes up memory allocation in UniTerm. > 3) would be nice to see file size/dates in fsel dialog (i.e. replace > fsel with something better) I would think this to be nice too, it's just that I don't want to subject the users of UniTerm to Yet-Another-File-Selector and would rather wait for Atari to provide a better one (if they would at least use the one in PC-GEM). >otherwise i use uniterm almost exclusively on ST. it is really nice! all this >from freeware... Thanks! BTW what about a deal: Alliant stops carrying out their feud with Apollo (in which both companies don't make a very good impression) at our cost and I send you the most recent UniTerm version (only half :-)). (one guess to what forty2 is) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: ...mcvax!cernvax!forty2!poole Simon Poole BITNET: K538915@CZHRZU1A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------