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WinQVT gripes

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From: Generic User
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 21:19
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OK, I've tried WinQVT 4.51 out for a few hours, and have noticed a few
things that still bother me:

The keyboard is not quite mapped correctly.  Pressing Control-6 sends a 6
to the remote, while pressing Control-Shift-6 sends a caret ('^') followed
by Control-^.  Shouldn't both of these combinations send just ^^?
Similarly, pressing Control-Break sends a ^C followed by a BREAK signal.
This is a judgement call, but it seems to me that it should only send one.
I'm used to MS-Kermit, in which it sends the break signal.

Also, I would like to be able to redefine the keyboard in its various
states, not just unshifted; I sometimes map keyboard macros to alt-letter
combinations under Kermit, and it doesn't look like I can do that here.

The font looks nice, but 80x38 (tall window) seems like a strange size to
me.  Maximized, the window is 91x40 (this is on a VGA, using the shareware
font).  Does anyone have a registered copy of this version?  What are the
window sizes like with the VGA font?  Is the small VGA font readable?  How
about using the SVGA font on a VGA display?

Finally, I can't make WinQVT my communications package until it improves
its multitasking of file transfers.  If I access my hard drive at all while
it is downloading, it loses characters and has to go back.  In contrast,
WinComm's file transfers seemed completely bullet-proof; this was actually
what impressed me most about the package.

Oh, well.  I guess it's back to Kermit and DSZ again...
--
Jason Merrill					jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
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