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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.

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