Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!iraun1!iravcl!joachim
From: joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Anybody using MacWorkStation?
Message-ID: <148@iravcl.ira.uka.de>
Date: 9 Jun 88 23:22:31 GMT
References: <21441@think.UUCP> <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de> <11584@apple.Apple.Com>
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Organisation: Universitaet Karlsruhe, IRA, F.R. Germany

In article <11584@apple.Apple.Com>, rekieta@Apple.COM (Paul Rekieta) writes:
> In article <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de> joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de writes:
> 
>>There are two other problems with MWS:
>>(1) your MWS application cannot have documents itself. It can process
>>    TEXT and MacWrite documents, but there is no double-clicking.
> 
> MWS can have documents containing local dialogs, menus, login scripts
> and other host defined resources.  Double-clicking one of these documents
> will start MWS and execute a pre-defined login script.

I think you didn't get the point. An MWS application is a document by itself
and cannot have other application defined documents by itself. The application
I am thinking about is mail - the host/client application per se - and the
documents could be old mail, drafts, etc. Another application could be
a database query template or report that is saved on the user's machine.
> 
>>(2) The transport layer supports no umlauted characters via transport
>>    method 2, you must use ADSP or the binary method (which is in
>>    general useless, because it assumes 8 bit, no XOn/XOff).
>>
> 
> The transport problem will be solved soon.  We are working on a comm
> module to send binary data in 7 bit mode allowing Xon/Xoff and errr
> detection.

Great! This will greatly improve MWS.

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Joachim Lindenberg, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe
Sommerstrasse 4, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, Federal Republic of Germany
joachim@ira.uka.de, joachim@germany.csnet, ..!mcvax!unido!uka!joachim