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From: Shmuel Doron <msdafna@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a terminal emulation newsgroup
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:57:16 +0300
Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.990706114036.156964A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 5 Jul 1999, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> In article <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.990705154004.100670C-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>,
> : I'm suggesting a new perspective. Lets assume someone who's using a
> : terminal emulation software and has a problem with it. A terminal
> : expert may have difficulties solving his problem while a terminal
> : emulation expert will have a greater chance of solving the problem.
> :
> : My point is that the terminal is sometimes just a part of the picture, not
> : the whole picture. Terminal emulation can give you another piece of the
> : puzzle.
>
> I have to disagree with this approach. If someone is writing a host
> application they need to write it to the specs of the original terminal
> and not the specs of some emulation. If they write the app to work only
> with a potentially broken emulation of a terminal they will no longer
> be able to switch terminal emulation products when needed.
Can't you imagine a problem due to the user inexperiance? Moreover, how
about a user who wants to use a windows software (like excell or
access) sitting on a PC through a terminal? He'll need someone familiar
with the terminal emulation software he's using to help him doing it.
> The terminal emulation authors (Dickey and I being two of them) would
> much rather only need to read a single newsgroup. There is not enough
> traffic on comp.terminals to warrant a segmentation into another
> group. In most cases if you are having a problem with an application
> and an emulation it is a bug in the emulator that really must be
> handled directly with the technical support and development organizations
> responsible for that product.
>
I'm suggesting the same thing that you want: a single newsgroup dealing
with terminal emulation. I just don't think that comp.terminals is doing
the job right now. That's why I've suggested comp.terminals.emulation.
I think that the reason for the low traffic on comp.terminals is the fact
that the subject of terminal emulation is being discussed on so many
different newsgroups.
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
> The Kermit Project * Columbia University
> 612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
> http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org
>
>
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