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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a terminal emulation newsgroup
Date: 5 Jul 1999 14:01:13 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
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.
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.
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