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- From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
- Message-ID: <olsen.1995@sourcery.mxm.sub.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Term 2.3 still has problems...
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- References: <olsen.1621@sourcery.mxm.sub.org> <1992Aug28.185446.22878@nntp.hut.fi>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:40:54 CED
- Organization: MXM Barthel & Paesler
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- In article <1992Aug28.185446.22878@nntp.hut.fi> hpesonen@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri P Pesonen) writes:
- > Maybe a stupid question: would it not have been possible to simply use a
- > standard console window? ConClip takes care of clipping and the console
- > window does a smart character based refresh.
-
- I could have done so, but would have ended up with an NComm-like terminal
- program. As it is, the terminal emulation provided by console.device does
- not support a bunch of VT102 commands, some commands (e.g. erase in line,
- insert line, delete line) don't support multiple lines, etc. With just
- console.device `term' wouldn't stand much of `vttest'. It still isn't perfect
- yet, but I claim to say that it's still better.
-
- > I can think at least one reason
- > you haven't done this: text output is much faster with Text() than with
- > Write().
-
- I probably wouldn't have used Write() (too much overhead, indeed) but
- device-level IO :-)
-
- > Harri Pesonen, Helsinki, Finland, Europe?
-
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