Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Hey all you terminal emulator authors out there ! Message-ID: <1026@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 02:50:55 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1026 Posted: Tue Jul 21 02:50:55 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 06:53:30 EDT Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca. Lines: 38 Keywords: lines I use a Tektronix 4107 terminal at work for all my modeming, and it has a feature that could be expanded nicely on an Amiga. Theres this variable, see, DALINES, (Dialog Area LINES) that, you guessed it controls the number of lines in the display. I think you can have up to 300 lines, I think, but I set it to 1000 or 10000 or something and it didnt squack, but I wasnt going to ocunt them. You use a 'puck' attached to the keyboard to *rollback* the screen. If this could be generalized to save the scrolled off lines into a file, (which I certainly would assign to ram:) and let me scroll back through it... Yeah, I *could* use 'capture', and have another CLI to muck with some file, but I was thinking of scroll bars for some reason. And if you could set the size of the paged-out file, you could set it to megabytes if you got 'em, or 10K or so, on a measly meg (like I've got) with compiler, etc still in ram. I know...why doesnt someone do this as a killer demo ? Four or five windows all being played back with *journal*, on a hard disk. I just may get something like the Apollo DM at home yet... No flames all you Sun lovers, Suns are equally nice, but they pay me to use Apollos, *and* I like them. Just as people like to brag "*I* can use {vi or EMACS or whatever} on UNIX at work, on a PC at home" etc, I'd like to be able to use the same visual environment on all my machines, but failing that, at least the same constructs. The Amiga is real close already. -- Richard Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard