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From: freedman@ksi.cpsc.UCalgary.CA (Dan Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: I hate to be a pain, but I need help with DM
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Date: 3 Mar 89 15:01:33 GMT
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In article <41a7cf1a.1b0ea@apollo.COM> weber_w@apollo.COM (Walt Weber) writes:
>The DM does not have any command sequences which can be embedded in the output
>stream in order to control cursor positioning, display attributes, etc.
 [much deleted]
>Thus, you gain the "infinitely scrollable transcript pads", but don't
>have cursor positioning.


It would be nice if the portion of the DM window that was visible
would act like a vt100, and the portion that was off screen would
act like a transcript.  Note that if output occurs while the user is
paged back somewhere in the transcript, the DM would then update that
portion of the end of the transcript that *would* have been in the
window wer the user not paging backward.  Ie:  the off screen part of
the transcript is read-only, even when the user brings it on screen by
paging backwards.  Only the bottom n lines (where n is determined by
the window size) of the transcript act like a vt100.  This behaviour
can be seen in Versaterm Pro (and possibly also the normal version of
Versaterm) for the Apple Macintosh, and is very useful.  There is no
intrinsic reason why this combined functionality cannot be made
available in the DM, other than it might require a fairly radical
change in the DM's programming.

Dan Freedman
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
2500 University Drive N.W.                  freedman@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4                       ...!alberta!calgary!freedman