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Subject: Re: macterminal
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In article <> henry@rochester.UUCP writes:
>All these fully-justified complaints about Macterminal's interpretation
>of various keys (eg difficulty of typing ~, lack of linefeed, lack of
>function keys w/o using mouse, etc) would be easily solved if the
>program had an option to read in a file re-binding the keys to
>arbitrary sequences of characters.  But, once again Apple is
>"protecting" the consumer from his/herself ...... let's hope someone
>writing software for the Mac discovers that "use friendly" doesn't mean
>"inflexible"....

And why not ask for automatic terminal reconfiguration capability
xmodem AND kermit, macros, and every other possible thing anyone
could want in a terminal program.  It barely fits in a 128K mac now.

1. Reconfiguration of keys takes a couple of minutes with Fedit. 
The tables are in block 5, 6, and 7.  Each key has sixteen
combinations of option, shift, caps lock.  The table is ordered.
Almost all the option keys are unused.  Have fun.

2. Apple HAS to protect the consumer, they are trying to sell to any
schmuck who can walk into a store.  They already know that someone
else will bring out a more versatile version of any software they
provide.  They barely got MacTerminal out as it is now.  You wanted
to wait another 6 months?
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