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From: dold@10.usenet.us.com
Subject: Re: Any progress on K95 GUI?
Date: 11 Jul 1999 18:59:26 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <7mapie$qk6$1@samba.rahul.net>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
: Our customers use K/95 (as well as MS-Kermit, K/2 and C-Kermit) to run
: curses-based Unix apps. With carefully crafted init files the end-users
: don't even know they run the apps through a telnet terminal emulator and
: it's 100% transparent accross all the platforms in use.
The warm and fuzzy is important. My users are also fairly simple, and I
don't know that GUI offers me anything anymore. The "shortcut builder"
giving me desktop icons, and the exit-on-close, or whatever it was called
that allows most usage to never see the command mode, made kermit viable
for deployment in my case.
The scripting being transportable between OS is what drew me to, and keeps
me with, Kermit. When K-95 first came out, I thought I was sadly lacking
some GUI features, but with 1.1.17, I am as close as I need to be.
The provided login scripts (that, again, the normal user never needs to
look at... just type in the stuff to the "login" tab) leave me with the K95
dialer being all the GUI that my users need.
Mouse cut and paste isn't what they expected, but it's easy to learn, and
is handy.
I would like to see a "macro recorder" like PCPlus has had for years.
I would like an option for the "shortcut" to be smaller, and still call
the *.ini files, rather than being a snapshot of them. It makes
maintenance of multiple shortcuts a bit tedious. I had a printer name
change, and had to change a pile of .ksc files on the one system that is in
heavy end-user use.
So far, I am rolling out K95 to different people, buying one new license
per rev level ;-) That way, I have a fresh CD, and a growing pool of
users. If there were a different pricing structure, I would buy more. the
next deployment would be 5-8 identical situations, so the one-at-a-time
approach doesn't make sense.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@network.rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.