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Re: KA9Q screen output

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From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
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Ian Smith <ian@isis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: This is a question for you KA9Q Borland C gurus.

: In spite of my total ignorance of C I've been porting the JNOS command 
: history into Demon's KA9Q with the hope that it would find it's way into 
: Textwin. (I can't compile TW since I only have BC3.)
: So far, so good, and I've extended the command history to cover all TTY 
: "cooked" sessions and added the ability to edit recalled commands. I got 

What do you mean by edit, do you have the cursors to cursor back
through the commands working? If so could I see a copy of your code
as I've been using the different approach of porting some of Demon
features in to jnos, especially
NNTP client
mailkill
DNS
rsh
xyz modem up/down loads
Johns httpclient
and the dialer command structure, I don't have the command history
editable yet, except by deleteing back to th epoint you want to change
and retyping.

: persuaded to do a few other things for somebody (extended help, command 
: line ftp scripting, etc) and that's gone OK as well.

[snip]
: screen and not just the defined window. Why ? JNOS, WNOS, etc have 
: status lines, but the screen scrolls within the defined window and they 
: don't *appear* to do their output in a different way, but obviously they 
: do. It's not a big thing, but it's starting to bug me :)  Any ideas ?

I think I know which bit of code will be causing this, but I don't
have the source to hand at the moment, I'll check it when I get home.

/* New more sensible vesion of DNOS available RSN */
-- 
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
            "Trust the computer the computer is your fiend"
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Date: 1997/04/08
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