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- From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: STalker vs Uniterm?
- Message-ID: <4058@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 04:41:53 GMT
- References: <3_800_842_fidonet2b57bb25@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
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- In article <3_800_842_fidonet2b57bb25@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au> michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith) writes:
- > Except that flash is grostically incompatible,
-
- English contains no such word, what language is this? :) Flash is
- incompatible with what? Again this is not English, being an incomplete
- sentence. Maybe Flash doesn't work on a TT, I don't know, but I also
- don't care, not having a TT.
-
- > and Uniterm, whilst I like it
- > very much, is too uncomfortable to use (and can only talk to the first
- > serial port).
-
- Now there's a logical analysis - whatever an uncomfortable term program
- is...
-
- > STalker comes with a version of
- > the TMail ANSI font, which looks _really_good_...
-
- Somehow I doubt that what you call really good is at all related to
- what I do... in mono you can probably get a fair font at less than
- 8x16, but that 8-bit width just can't be shrunk much.
-
- > and if you have a halfway
- > decent screen accelerator (NVDI or Warp9) it will pretty well keep up with
- > 9600 on an ST, something that Flash doesn't seem to all that well.
-
- Sigh. Why do people say stuff like this? Right now I'm using vi through
- Flash 1.6 at 19200 baud, and screen redrawing is excellent. I also
- use Quick ST, which I hear is not as fast as Warp9. BTW, I tried STalker
- with the same Quick ST, and it was still the slowest vt100 emulation
- I've ever seen. Do you even use vt100 termcaps on a Unix system?
-
- > If you only have an ST, use Uniterm, you don't have the speed or need for
- > anything more.
-
- Or Flash 1.6.
-
- > If you have a Mega STe, an accelerated ST, or a TT,
-
- use Flash 1.6 :)
-
- > use either STalker
- > (whose VT100 is pretty good when you set it up right,
-
- hah! unless you don't want lines over 80 chars displayed correctly.
-
- > CoNnect, which is as close to flawless as I have ever seen a
- > terminal emulator get.
-
- Does it have an editable capture buffer with word wrap? Is it as fast
- as Flash 1.6?
-
-
- I get the feeling a lot of people use term programs to just dial up
- bulletin boards in TTY mode, without ever using a real editor or
- something that requires vt100, and then telling me about vt100 emulation.
-
- --
-
- ken@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ] Ken Newman
-