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Article: 13348 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: Re: suggestion for future gui
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>But you're talking about something else... For example, people who use
>it mainly (or exclusively) for terminal emulation, in which settings must
>usually be dealt with -- which kind of terminal to emulate, what does the
>backspace key send, is the connection 7 or 8 bits, what screen dimensions,
>what character set, etc.
And not only terminal emulation settings. My biggest problem with getting to
my web host server was figuring out exactly how to use which ftp settings as
well. I think the one that confused me most was the "autologin" (which is
apparently on by default). I kept expecting to find some way to tell it the
user name to "autologin" as, but eventually figured out I could turn it off
and use the "user" command. (For all I know there is some way to tell it the
user name, but I never found it :-).
>Just so we're clear -- we do not intend to change the entire Kermit user
>interface into a GUI. That would be silly
I certainly agree with that.
>Hey, that makes you a charter member! I wonder how many other products
>let you patch your way up through 20 new releases :-)
I've never seen another commercial product that lets me do that (though
I think I've gone through that many releases of Gnu Emacs :-). Everyone
else seems to wait for there to be some really nifty new feature, then
they change the product name, and charge you for an "upgrade".
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