From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: `term' v2.4 to be released rsn.
Date: 12 Oct 1992 20:15:50 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <1992Oct12.043439.29294@mercury.unt.edu> west@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce West) writes:

I like you.  You sound like a nice guy.  So I'll do my best not to
flame you into the gutters of L.A.  :)

>*  Review buffer design (things *needed*)
>  Split-screen review buffer, rather than putting it on a seperate screen.

Already got something like that.  There's a review-buffer in a window.
If you're using 2.3, there's an easy way to get it.  Go down to
"Windows" in the menu bar, and select "Review".  It gives you a review
window on the term screen.  Selecting "Display Buffer" with the shift
key held down does the same thing.

>  Ability to cut,paste, and copy from buffer to clipboards and files, and
>    visa-versa.

Cut is sometimes broken in 2.3.  And I'd rather not have copy to a
file in there, that's best left for an editor, isn't it?  And some of
us have other programs whose entire function is to do just that.  So
no, I don't think that belongs in there.  Personally.  Anyways, you
can cut and paste with the clipboard, so that's in there.

>  Ability to control the *speed* of paste.  ie. char delays and line delay.
>    At 2400 baud paste is WAY to fast.  And speed is also good for bad
>    connections.

That's in there too.  RTFM.  :)  It's under "Miscellaneous" in
"Settings", set the Clipboard character delay and clipboard line delay
scrollers.  :)

>  Ability to *paste* from files.

Send as text is in there.  ASCII sending is there too.  It is not the
job of a terminal, in my opinion, to move a text file into the
clipboard.  If you'd like a nice, small clipboard manager (I'm not
releasing my really nice one till I get 6.0), CF 1.1 exists.  The full
name of the program is ClipFile.  Allows reading and writing text
files, and will write out a FORM FTXT file for ya too.

>  Ability to paste with line prefixes and suffixes. [needed for responding
>    on brain-dead systems].

Interesting.  :)  That's not bad.  I don't PERSONALLY have a use for
it, but I can see where it would be extremely nice.

>   Other than that is seems pretty great.  Unfortunetly these flaws make it
>unusable for me -- so I really havn't gotten a chance to fully check it out.
>If either of the above mentioned problems are simple my mistake in my options
>(on either term or VLT) PLEASE tell me so I can set it up correctly.

Oh, sure it's missing two things, the second looks more like a bug
report than anything.  :)  Hope that this will help you find some of
the functions you were looking for, and by all means:

RRRRRRR    TTTTTTTTTT   FFFFFFFFF   MM       MM
RRRRRRRR   TTTTTTTTTT   FFFFFFFFF   MMM     MMM
RR    RR       TT       FF          MMMM   MMMM
RR    RR       TT       FF          MM MM MM MM
RR    RR       TT       FFFFFF      MM  MMM  MM
RRRRRRR        TT       FFFFFF      MM   M   MM
RRRRRRR        TT       FF          MM       MM
RR  RR         TT       FF          MM       MM
RR   RR        TT       FF          MM       MM
RR    RR       TT       FF          MM       MM

(oops, a little tall.  It looked nice in interlace, though...)

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