Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Telix: initial reactions from a Procomm Plus user Message-ID: <13346@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 89 04:30:46 GMT References: <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 81 As quoted from <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> by wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu: +--------------- | ==> Bug in setting default initial terminal mode: If you try to set the | default mode to be 7 bits with parity, the parity will be forgotten | and will always change back to NONE the next time you run Telix. | The only workaround seems to be to set an 8-bit default mode (N81). +--------------- Telix 3.00 didn't save the backspace setting (destructive vs. non-); this was a show-stopper for me. It was added in 3.11. Maybe this will be fixed in the next version? +--------------- | ==> Misfeature in dialing directory editing: There is no way to go back | to change a previous parameter in a dialing directory entry. (I.e., | there should be a key that moves opposite to RETURN.) As it is now, | you just have to hit RETURNs to step all the way through to the end | of the entry -- then edit it again from the beginning. +--------------- Agreed. If they don't want to use arrows (since they're used in the pop-up menus), maybe they should use something like TAB (or shift-TAB)? +--------------- | these settings from the keyboard. If, for example, you want 24-hour | time display mode as a default, the only way to do it seems to be to | run a SALT script with "_time_format = 1;" every time you use Telix. +--------------- Which leads nicely into *my* suggestion: I'd like to have Telix automatically read some default script file (say, TELIX.SLC) upon startup unless overridden via a special command-line option. This would be in addition to the current command-line option for running scripts, to act as a sort of generic start-up file. +--------------- | ==> "Underlined" text on color displays: Some people have reported that | Telix shows underlined text with a blue background (making it hard | to see with certain color combinations). Since I have a monochrome | display right now, I haven't noticed this problem myself. I assume | it can be worked around by either selecting different screen colors | or making a customized "termcap" entry (with some other display | attributes for the "us" and/or "so" parameters). +--------------- Isn't this a holdover from CGA brain-damage? Not much that can be done about it in that case, except to provide a colors entry for attributes (which, I note, Procomm Plus doesn't do either). +--------------- | ==> Dialing directory: There should be a way to copy an existing entry | to a new slot, in case two or more entries are almost identical. +--------------- Agreed; my three entries for ncoast are a good example. +--------------- | ==> Dialing directory: A dialing directory file name without an exten- | sion should be automatically augmented with an extension of ".FON". | The Telix authors apparently thought they were adding flexibility by | not enforcing a standard filename extension for dialing directories, | but in the DOS world I think it is better to add default extensions | when none are specified by the user. +--------------- Why didn't they stick with the DOS convention that "FILENAME" gets an extension added, but "FILENAME." doesn't? Another suggestion for a new feature: Telix's "chat" mode is set up for two Telixes talking to each other; it adds linefeeds to received text. However, I use chat mode far more often to talk to Delphi conferences (equiv. CI$ or GEnie CB simulator, Unix "write" on systems sans "talk", etc.); in this case, chat mode double-linefeeds and is therefore useless. I'd like to see this become an option, perhaps on a per-dialing-drectory-entry basis. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org (soon) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser