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From: joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Anybody using MacWorkStation?
Message-ID: <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de>
Date: 2 Jun 88 13:11:19 GMT
References: <21441@think.UUCP>
Lines: 19
Posted: Thu Jun  2 14:11:19 1988
Organisation: Universitaet Karlsruhe, IRA, F.R. Germany

In article <21441@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) writes:
> I'm especially interested in how well it can handle a situation such
> as the following:
> [...]

I think MWS is not the product for you. Of course you can do that, but
you'll have to write external commands to do that. The basic operation
of MWS is the user wants something, the host sends something. What 
you want to do requires a lot of history information or caching.

There are two other problems with MWS:
(1) your MWS application cannot have documents itself. It can process
    TEXT and MacWrite documents, but there is no double-clicking.
(2) The transport layer supports no umlauted characters via transport
    method 2, you must use ADSP or the binary method (which is in
    general useless, because it assumes 8 bit, no XOn/XOff).

Joachim Lindenberg, University of Karlsruhe
Federal Republic of Germany - West Germany.