[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-05 00:49, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-04 21:11:
>> In article <kc6ol2$f50$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> Johnny Billquist wrote 2013-01-04 14:47:
>>>> On 2013-01-04 13:37, Jan-Erik Soderholm 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 ?
>>>>
>>>> How about anyone who uses a real terminal instead of a buggy
>>>> emulator? :-)
>>>>
>>>>       Johnny
>>>>
>>>
>>> I only use non-buggy emulators. Or at least emulators where
>>> any bugs are non-visible. And yes, I did see you smiley... :-)
>>
>> Can you name one???
>>
>
> I uses both PyTTY and Refection 14 and neither has any (to me)
> visible bugs that disturbes me or my work. Maybe if you run
> some VT-term validation script you'd see something, but that
> is not a requirement from my customer, so it's not part of
> my work.

Putty does things wrong if you output something in the last column. :-(
I've also heard that if you have reverse video on and select text, you 
can't see the text. (I haven't verified that one myself.)

I don't think I've used Reflection, but I'm sure I can find bugs in that 
one too.

	Johnny