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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dreaming of the perfect terminal software
Message-ID: <4603@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 May 88 12:53:12 GMT
References: <6970@j.cc.purdue.edu> <650020@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> <599@a.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <599@a.UUCP> chn@a.UUCP (Charles Neil) writes:
>In article <650020@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>, spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes:
>> at White Pine Software's vt2xx emulators or Abelebeck's (sp?) VersaTerm series.
>Here's something I consider very useful that exists on VTERM for the
>IBM PC but doesn't exist in VersaTerm:  the toggle between the terminal
>and the micro.  You can toggle out of VTERM, work locally on stuff
>you may have just downloaded, and then toggle back to the terminal
>instantly.

You must not be running MultiFinder and VT 3.1!  VT 3.1 will do downloading
of multiple files in the BACKGROUND while you do other things with your Mac.
The download speed doesn't even seem to slow down by more than 10-20%,
either.

Multifinder (really a multitasking operating system) is the PROPER way to
switch out of the emulator and do other things, anyway.  The PC programs
provide escapes to the command interpreter because there are NO OS hooks to
do so cleanly.

>Another advantage of VTERM over VersaTerm is the size of
>the scrollback buffer--it's adjustable and big on the PC.  Still, I'm

The buffer size is changeable (under MultiFinder) by doing a "get Info", and
changing the memory partition available.  About 180K is the minimum, ~280K is
the default shipped with the program.

>glad to have the mac for all its other virtues over the PC.
> 

Amen!

>> Pretty impressive for what some silly people still call a "toy computer".

Amen! ^2
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."