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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VLT and capture buffer filter?
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0me9@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 2 Jan 93 10:34:38 PST
- References: <crystal.725611416@glia> <C03orI.HIE@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- <crystal.725769972@glia> <C03wHF.9t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- <crystal.725830210@glia> <jbickers.0md0@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <crystal.725913097@glia>
- Organization: TAP
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- Quoted from <crystal.725913097@glia> by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal):
- > In <jbickers.0md0@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
-
- > > Because quite often one doesn't WANT to filter out the Esc
- > > sequences from the captured data. If you do, you are supposed to
- > > use the review buffer.
-
- > Well, it seems that I have knack for marching to a different drummer and
- > wanting to do things that others say can't be done, or that others can see
-
- No doubt. I was just trying to point out a possible reason that
- the author of VLT might have had for designing things the way he
- did. The capture is a true capture, while the review buffer is a
- "processed" capture.
-
- BTW, was there something wrong with just stripping the Esc
- sequences from the capture file?
-
- > And this incident using TALK and vi as examples shows that there is most
-
- Deep Six your files with VI.
-
- > definitely a bug in the system, since the review buffer can't handle it for
-
- Not having a feature != having a bug. Perhaps if you could
- describe what was wrong with removing Esc sequences, some ARexx
- script could be devised to process the incoming data.
-
- > Crystal
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