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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.
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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.


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Richard Sexton
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