[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sat Jan 5 10:00:54 EST 2013


In article <kc80bk$fsm$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2013-01-04 23:07, David Froble wrote:
>>> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> On 2013-01-04 15:23, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>> 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... :-)
>>>>
>>>> Tell me which ones you are using, and I'll happily point out some bugs
>>>> to you... :-)
>>>>
>>>>     Johnny
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I'm lazy, I'll let you do the work.
>>>
>>> I'm using SmarTerm from I believe Persoft, which may no longer be 
>>> around ..
>> 
>> Can I get a copy? :-)
>> I think I've used it some time in the past, and it was pretty ugly... (I 
>> could be remembering wrong.)
>> 
>>     Johnny
>> 
> 
> It is/was a commercial product, with a license key.  I don't think it 
> appropriate for me to be distributing it.

I had a dozen copies in the past.  Threw them out long ago.  The only
one I ever used that was worse was ProComm.  (Anybody remember the
first version of ProComm that couldn't keep up at anything over 2400
baud!!)

bill

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