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- From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: IIgs telecom programs...
- Message-ID: <2AA7D1F2.22568@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:15:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ics.2AA7D1F2.22568
- References: <fmlin.1cey@terapin.com> <gdzyf5d@rpi.edu>
- Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- In article <gdzyf5d@rpi.edu> kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
- >In article <fmlin.1cey@terapin.com> fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
- >>While ProTerm seems really nice, I always wanted to see a GS specific telecom
- >>program. Some may say QuickDraw II is too slow for telecom... how about
- >>ORCA's Prizm? Prizm can scroll by one line as fast as the text mode, and
- >>scrolling by page is only slower by a little bit. And the font is monospaced.
- >>Normally, the special Shaston 8 ( fastfont ) is the fastest. But it's not
- >>monospaced, and scrolling by page is really slow when compared to Prizm. The
- >>size of the font used in Prizm will allow at least 80x23. Probably 80x25 if
- >>you don't use the menu bar & the window title.
- >
- >I'd be happy with a GS/OS-based terminal program that had all of ProTERM's
- >features, even if it were text-based. The text screen would provide the
- >speed, and using GS/OS for memory management would allow the use of inits
- >and DA's (I mean make them more compatible). Who knows, you might even be
- >able to run it in background with GNO.
- >
- >Now that I think about it, what I REALLY want is ProTERM GS.
- >
- >Mike
- >
- >--
- >Michael Kent kentm@rpi.edu
- >McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- >All facts in this post are based on publicly available information. All
- >opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Apple II Forever !!
-
- I agree. I would even settle for something that looked like WordPerfect GS.
- Has the 640 modem menubar on top, but text only for the displays. So we
- loose the fancy fonts, so what! The scroll in WordPerfect is pretty fast
- because it's in the text mode.
-
- Jimmy
-
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- Jimmy Shaw
- jimmys@ics.uci.edu "Hold my calls... I am trying to learn C."
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