[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-01 01:15, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/31/2022 6:04 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-08-31 kl. 23:32, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>> On 8/31/2022 2:07 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> Den 2022-08-31 kl. 00:19, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>>>>> On 2022-08-30 10:02:03 +0000, Marc Van Dyck said:
>>>>> As for Micro Focus, they had merged with Attachmate some years ago, 
>>>>> and Attachmate had Reflection terminal emulator support and X 
>>>>> Window System server support,
>>>>
>>>> And Attachmate got Reflection when they marged with WRQ. They had
>>>> the emulator "Extra!" since before, which happens to be the main
>>>> emulator at my customer (today run from Citrix servers).
>>>
>>> I always liked Reflection.
>>>
>>> But the reality today is that putty is good enough for most.
>>
>> Sure. But Reflection was still "better"... :-)
>>
>> Putty lacks the 7-bit national character sets.
>> Both Reflection and Extra can handle those.
> 
> Putty doesn't handle soft fonts either.

putty is acceptable, I guess. But at least in one situation, it differs 
from how a VT-terminal behaves, and the developer preferred to keep it 
that way after I pointed it out. Several other incompatibilities I 
pointed out were fixed, though. So not totally unreasonable, but I'm not 
entirely happy when there are deviations.

   Johnny