Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!calgary!west From: west@calgary.UUCP (Darrin West) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Online V2.0 Message-ID: <1009@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:30:59 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxb.1009 Posted: Sat Jul 11 17:30:59 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 17:08:13 EDT Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab. Lines: 43 My brohter just got Online V2.0 in the mail, along with a reasonably comprehensive manual. Has anyone else noticed that is doesn't work. The very first thing I tried was: log in to the university and try editing some files in emacs. When in vt100 emulation mode, Online will not insert lines. Simply typing ^J should move the last half of the screen down, and leave a blank line. It move the cursor down a line, but does not move any text. Clearing the screen, and causing emacs to rebuild it does show the the line was inserted. I can not understand how a product, claiming to be extensively modified and corrected could have such a glaring flaw. The previous version did not do this (however it never shut of reverse video once it was on). I am using the vt52 emulator right now, but it seems incapable of sending a ^@ (ie null) to the Vax, making it extremely difficult to set a mark. GRRR! Don't people test their software? Let me now soften this complaint by saying that I have not read the entire manual, and if there is some corrective measure mentioned there, then I owe someone an apology, but I can't see why it can't work the first time I use it. Good money was paid for this thing, and it doesn't seem to have the basic functioning correct. I will have to go back to using Dave Wecker's (I think) vt100 emulator. At least the screen did get confused. Other than this, Online seems to be spruced up substantially. Pretty icon's and nice requestors galore. Much better window control (eg. interlace and 8-colour mode etc), more file transfer protocols, (including auto chop for xmodem), changeable fonts, and other keen bells and whistles. Let me say that the termcap file on the vax drives scores of real vt100's, vt102's and the occasional vt52 on campus. It is NOT probably at fault. -- Darrin West, Master's Unit (read: student). ..![ubc-vision,ihnp4]! Department of Computer Science alberta!calgary!west University of Calgary. Can you say '88 Winter Games? Brain fault (cortex dumped)