[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Fri Jan 4 08:06:02 EST 2013


In article <kc6ie2$255$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> In article <nospam-1FE165.12192104012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> > You are not kidding.  My first experience with it was with UCX 3.n, and
> > the help would scroll off the top of a VT screen.
> 
> But *that* must be a problem of the way past, right?
> Does anyone use a terminal tool/emulator without
> easy scrollback of a large screen buffer today ?

It was a distinct problem in the mid-nineties when I only had access to 
VT screens.  In that time frame the UCX developers were probably using 
DECwindows or X terminals, rather than emulators.

-- 
Paul Sture



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