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From: matthews@wfu.edu (Rick Matthews)
Subject: Re: Any progress on K95 GUI?
Date: 20 Jul 1999 21:03:00 GMT
Organization: Wake Forest University
Message-ID: <7n2o64$tb0@f1n1.spenet.wfu.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: The most attention will be given to those that clarify essential but
: confusing aspects of K95 usage (like "you must give the SET MODEM TYPE
: command before SET PORT but you should give SET FLOW after SET PORT..."),
: and promote ease of use by novices who don't read documentation (having GUI
: dialogs for advanced or little-used features doesn't help much in this
: department, since novices who don't read documentation won't understand
: those features anyway).
I want the GUI for one reason and one reason only: tektronix
emulation. Add that and I am pretty sure our university will
go for a site license.
There are few graphics options available for modem users. With
fast connections, we all use x-servers, but x-servers have
too much overhead for modem links. MS-Kermit in Tek emulation
met our graphics needs satisfactorily even with 9600 baud modems.
(2400 baud was not terrible.)
P.S. I haven't used Kermit since June of 1995, but I still
check this newsgroup every couple of weeks to monitor progress
toward Tektronix emulation under Windows. I still love and
miss Kermit.
--
Rick Matthews matthews@wfu.edu
Department of Physics http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ematthews
Wake Forest University 336-758-5340 (Voice)
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507 336-758-6142 (FAX)
USA