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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Unrecognized com port
Date: 9 Feb 2001 15:59:10 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <96144e$kpv$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <96121n$6u6$1@panther.uwo.ca>,
c.a. creider <creider@julian.uwo.ca> wrote:
: In article <95ru3n$gh3$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>,
: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote:
: >I realize everybody would like to use MS-DOS Kermit in Windows 9x and
: >above because it's free, whereas Kermit 95, which is what you should be
: >using, costs some money.
:
: There is another problem, at least for me: Kermit 95 will not display a
: full-screen DOS emulation type window and although it gives a number of
: font choices (presumably depending on what fonts are installed), nothing
: is as easy on the eyes as the standard DOS window (which is not unlike a
: terminal window or what one sees with SCO Unix, Linux, etc.). Is there
: any chance of capturing the DOS-emulation window which all versions of
: Windows still have as far as I know and making it available for Kermit 95
: users? (I can imagine that this would not be easy to do as it would mean
: programming a separate menu interface (or giving up on menus -- which
: would be fine with me) and probably there would be other complications,
: but this is the real reason I still use MS-DOS Kermit (on those machines
: on which it will run -- on some I have the "unrecognised com port"
: problem).
:
Kermit 95 is a fully native 32-bit Windows Console-mode program. The choice
of fonts that you see in the Toolbar are not Kermit's; they are Windows'.
Windows does not allow Console programs to have access to the Toolbar.
The answer to this and all other common complaints about Kermit 95 is to
convert it from Console to GUI. Then you'll be able to choose any font you
want. As most readers know, we have been working on this for years and
years and years and at the moment it is our second highest priority (the
first being support for SSH and SSH2).
Personally I have no problems at all with K95's appearance, and I'm pretty
fussy. I live in K95 all day. Here's my setup:
. PC with Windows 9x.
. A 21" monitor (yes it really is worth it!)
. An Avant keyboard (just like the IBM keyboard but mappable,
so you can have Ctrl and Esc where you want).
. Several K95 windows to the Unix and other hosts where I do all my work;
as many as 10 or 20 windows when I'm doing a C-Kermit "build-all".
. A Netscape window.
I use Windows 9x instead of NT or 2000 so I can suffer on a daily basis with
the Windows 9x limitations and bugs, just like most of you (most of the
font-related complaints about K95 melt away when you use Windows NT or 2000,
which offer you a much wider range of choice in the Console window).
My primary K95 window is 49x80, using the TrueType 12x22 font, white on
blue, with white-on-cyan status line. It's very readable and easy on the
eyes, and just fits vertically on the large screen. Whenever a URL shows up
in a K95 window that I want to look at, I just Ctrl-Click on it and it pops
up in the Netscape window.
As to why the GUI conversion is taking so long... Unlike other Windows
applications, Kermit 95 is (a) largely based on a portable code base, which
is also used in UNIX, VMS, and other operating system families; (b) K95
itself is portable across all 32-bit Windows versions (except CE), including
those that run (or ran) or non-Intel platforms; and (c) K95 itself is also
portable to IBM OS/2. Windows is extremely hostile to portable code.
- Frank