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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MicroPhone II screen displaying...
Message-ID: <1482@garth.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 16:23:59 GMT
References: <4933@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
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Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <4933@saturn.ucsc.edu> avalon@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Scott A. McIntyre) writes:
>MicroPhone II...  gets a line of information from the modem, THEN
>displays it to the screen...  The result is a display that jumps line
>by line.  Is there a way that I can tell MicroPhone to do [update the
>screen a character at a time]?

I like the way it updates the screen since I always run at 9600 bps.  It can
receive data MUCH faster than Microphone I or any other Macintosh or
IBM+Windows terminal emulator I've seen.

I can see how it might be annoying at 1200 bps.  One thing you could try
is to use scripting to make yourself a command to put you into character-
update mode, using "send local" and "nextch".  You'd only implement
(yourself!) a small subset of VT100 commands, and only use it when you
were scrolling lots of data on the screen.  In full-screen editing, I
think Microphone II's method of updating is better even at slow speeds.

Another solution is to sell it and use your other terminal emulator.
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