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From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a terminal emulation newsgroup
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:46:51 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In comp.terminals Shmuel Doron <msdafna@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> I believe that many times terminal emulation problems would be solved
> better by people who are familiar with terminal emulation software, and
> not by the experts on terminals. The problem may be in the terminal but
> the solution is in the terminal emulation software.
Not really. While the two groups of people are not synonymous, the three
cases go like this:
+ overlap (no problem)
+ know terminals but not emulations (useful to me, probably others)
+ know terminal emulations but not terminals (no use to me or anyone)
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Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey