Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZCOMM is very buggy
Message-ID: <670@omen.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 11:14:20 GMT
References: <2598@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <6216@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1958@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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In article <1958@bgsuvax.UUCP> ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
:I did feel that there was a point made here.  Zcomm's vt100 emulation in the
:80 column mode is near flawless, but the 132 mode . . . well . . .

The 132 column emulation requires a display adapter whose BIOS
supports 132 columns, such as ATI EGA Wonder, Everex EVGA,
Genoa Super EGA, (these I have used) as well as Tseng and
others.  With a suitable display, ZCOMM does well on vttest.

Apparently many received only two thirds of the manual
because of truncation in the net distribution.  Since I
don't get the comp.binaries newsgroups I can't say how much
of the manual was missing.  The table of contents and cross
reference index come last, about 230 pages in all.

An important adjunct to the manual is the help processor and
database contained in ZCOMMHLP.ARC.  I don't know if this went
out over the net.

The help database is tree structured along functional lines,
while the manual is more of a reference resource.  Wthout the
help processor and database, the manual is a bit of a learning
curve.