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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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Subject: Re: noecho bug on rlogin from typescript
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Date: 22 Feb 90 22:19:27 GMT
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Excerpts from andrew: 21-Feb-90 Re: noecho bug on rlogin fr.. Nathaniel
Borenstein@thu (1908+3)

>  (If I had my druthers, it would be the other way 'round -- tm is the
> one to support, albeit with several improvements!)

I agree!

I mean, does the world really need a better xterm-type program all that badly?

The nice thing about typescript is that it supports the same interface
model -- same text, same brain-dead menus, same line editing, etc. 
There are fewer breakdowns in switching between ez and typescript than
between ez and xterm, for example.  I'd like something more like tm, in
that it should handle curses programs.  And of course, the main
attribute of xterm is that it emulates a character terminal.  Typescript
does not, and thus is not really an xterm-type program.

And, as you say, it is ridiculous that typescript and tm do not properly
present ATK objects.  If I cat a file with a zip in it, I should see
that object come out, not some text representation.  We should have to
run a program to see the text representation, something called ezrawcat
or some such.  But enough about how the world should be...

Bill