nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) (11/15/88)
First of all, my thanks to the many people who responded to my
net.plea for a Wyse 50 emulator on an xt. They all recommended a
package called procomm +, which *incredibly* coincidentaly was just
distributed on the net (in test form). I naturally grabbed it as it arrived
and gave it a whirl (BTW anybody else have trouble d'arcing the
manual - I got a CRC error)
I have some observations on the package that I'd like verified/refuted,
if possible.
Because the host I am using (an ADDS Mentor 2500) knows all about the
Wyse50, it really put Procomm + to the test. I found several things missing
from the emulation, so tragic, others, well ... who cares. They are as
follows:
o Improper use of the function keys - I could not properly program the
function key line (Did not break headers or respond to Shift mode),
nor did it send back the 'standard' sequences. From my *brief* reading
of the docs, this may be a problem that goes away when one buys the
real package.
o no 132 column mode. I don't really care about this, but the Mentor
noticed (Some screens are supposed to be presented in 132 mode)
o It did not keep up to 9600 baud at all (and I have a fast XT, so
it ain't the computer!), and in fact had trouble at 2400, which is
the speed at which I would like to use it. I believe it is when the
clear-to-end-line control code is sent that it slows down - normal
text seems all right. This represents a problem for me.
o It crashed when I tried to address the Message line (the line above
the top line of the screen). Since most of the packages I want to
run use this line as a status line, I must find out why this occurs.
Well, that's it for the moment. Again, my thanks to all those who pointed
this program out, both by news and by email. I also want to put in a
pitch for more packages like this - shareware test versions of obviously
usefull packages.
Nick
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