richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (07/21/87)
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!richardrichard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (07/22/87)
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, DABUFFER, (Dialog Area BUFFER) that, you guessed it
controls the number of lines in the display. You can have up to 32767 lines, by 132 columns. (Horizontal scrolling)
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
with a disk caching *rollback*, 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. And yes, pop up windows *would* be nice.
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 "Its too dark to put the key in my ignition..."