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Telix is a terrific communications package with one notable
shortcoming. The built-in scrollback buffer does not save the color
attributes, so users must scroll back through a black-and-white version
of what was often a colorful ANSI BBS session. It is easy, however, to
add color scrollback to Telix by using an external scrollback buffer
utility.
Adding an external scrollback is analogous to adding an external
protocol driver such as DSZ. Just as you can switch to the external
protocol driver when doing a file transfer, you can also invoke an
external scrollback buffer utility during your Telix session.
If you are unhappy about the lack of color scrollback in Telix, but you
don't want to switch comm packages, then you really should check out the
advantages of using an external scrollback buffer utility such as
SCROLLit. SCROLLit is shareware with a registration fee of $17.
SCROLLit is a memory resident (TSR) program that captures, in full
color, the lines of text that scroll off the top of the video screen and
stores them in an XMS, EMS or conventional memory 'scrollback' buffer of
a size specified by the user. A fast compression technique is used to
store twice the number of lines in the available buffer space. SCROLLit
can be activated or 'popped up' over any non-graphical program by
pressing the Scroll Lock key. Once activated, SCROLLit will let you
scroll back through this saved information, line by line or page by
page. SCROLLit has a fast search capability as well as a block-write
feature that allows you to mark a block of lines for writing to a disk
file or sending to your printer. SCROLLit is Desqview aware. A 9k TSR.
SCROLLit should be installed before running Telix. For example, to
install a 100k scrollback buffer, type:
SCROLLit 100
SCROLLit can be removed from memory by typing:
SCROLLit /U
There are some Telix configuration changes that must be made in order
for SCROLLit to successfully capture your scrolling lines. By default,
Telix uses direct screen writing to scroll the screen. SCROLLit requires
that Telix be reconfigured to use the BIOS for screen scrolling. In
Telix, press Alt-O / Screen / ScreenWrite / Bios. Also, the status line
should not be configured for the top of the screen. Telix can be
configured for no status line, or a status line on the bottom of the
screen by pressing Alt-O / Terminal / D-Status line / None or Bottom.
SCROLLit can be downloaded from many BBS's as SCRLITxx.ZIP, where xx is
the version number. The latest version is 1.5, so the filename is
SCRLIT15.ZIP. The latest version is also available on Compuserve in the
IBM Compatible Utilities area (GO IBMSYS). Technical support is provided
via Compuserve.
There are other scrollback buffer utilities for you to evaluate.
BUFFIT and JCSCROLL are two scrollback buffers that do not capture BIOS
scrolling and will therefore not work with Telix. These programs can be
used to scrollback through DOS output such as the DIR command.
WAS is another scrollback buffer that, like SCROLLit, captures both DOS
and BIOS screen scrolling and therefore works with Telix. While it lacks
many of SCROLLit's features such as searching, block-writing and
compression, WAS has the advantage of being free. Download WAS061.ZIP.