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From: djn1537@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Desterm Disaster VT100
Message-ID: <46400035@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 89 02:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!djn1537    Apr 22 21:06:00 1989


	Desterm's menu system, screen flexiblity, up/downloading, dialing
colors, and many other things are much better than Kermit 2.2 . However, the
VT100 emulation is bad.  Kermit's emulation was 10 times better than that of
Desterm's.  I have had several things go wrong since I got it today.

	1).  When I use gnumacs or there is constant scolling, the screen likes
to feed me a bunch of Commodore's graphic characters.  In Emacs, whenever I
hit the backspace or a line comes in down at the bottom.  The screen prints
all these graphic characters (like what is happening to me right now).  If I
do a control L the screen will print what I actually typed except at the 
bottom.  When I delter a charcter on a line that has text, the whole line then
switches to Commodore's graphic stuff.  I have tried all the possible 
combinations on the backspace setup menu.

	2).  Sometimes the save setup file will either lock the computer up or
give me a different type error.  

	3).  The 50-52 length screen is a nice feature.  but when the screen
scrolls,  my nice dark-grey character color is replaced with a wild, flickering
white color.

	4).  The hangup feature only works when you are off the system and when
you get off it hands up automatically, so that feature is about useless.

	I was wondering why the file sizes of Kermit 2.2 and Desterm. 

If any has similar problems tell me about them, so I would think that I set
something up wrong  Or if you want tell me if I set something up wrong.
 
						 thanks
 							dan nix.  

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