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From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DGTerm memory resident VT100 emulator
Message-ID: <4947@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 88 21:17:12 GMT
References: <45624@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <3121@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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   It works... sort of, most of the time, maybe. I have encountered the
following problems:
   1) the arrow keys don't work when I'm logged into a CMS account. Nor
is there a backspace key! This is very annoying. It renders the program
almost useless for calling in to CMS accounts. And yes, I've tried the
NumLock key.
   2) Being a background type program, it makes certain assumptions
about what the foreground program is doing. So sometimes I pull it up
and discover that my foreground program has mutilated it. This I can
live with, though.
   3) THE BIG PROBLEM: it suffers from the usual problem associated with
xmodem on PCs: it doesn't strip the padding characters from the end! I
wrote a quick program to do so, and then I discovered that it doesn't
always screw up the end in the same way! Most of the files were padded
with char Ox1A. However, one file seemed to have been padded with Ox00
and another with repeated variations on   ...N81N...1200 ...
which were the parameters I was using to call in! What's going on here?

   In summary, this program could potentially be very useful. I like the
fact that it doesn't appreciably slow most foreground applications. But
if I can't trust it to download properly, it's going to have to go. Am I
doing something wrong? Are these bugs easily fixable?

   
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