john13@garfield.UUCP (06/08/87)
[] Box #1 had no disk. Box #2 had "not a DOS disk". The real Diga! was inside Box #3. Marco said that the VT100 emulation was broken. Sorry, it works well if you specify 24 lines and truncate end-of-line; otherwise the cursor position may not get set properly. I have used the VT100 selection with VI and Hack without any problems. The macro key and script file operations are VERY nice. I have all of that set up in my familiar DBW_VT100 way, with a lot more thrown in. There is support for if-then-else constructs, testing for file existence, and lots more. The phonebook operations are also very nice. You set up a sort of "database" of phone numbers. You can then flip through it very quickly, directly to a specific letter if you want, and dial automatically. It will set your baud for each number, and also run a particular script file and load a particular configuration for each one if you want. You can customize to your modem's particular messages for "connect", "attention", "answer" (eg ATS0=1), "don't answer", "hangup", "dial command", and "switch to voice". The Doubletalk protocol is really something else! You can send a file, receive a file, and chat (it sends a line at a time) all at once, with no noticeable slowdown as compared to a regular xmodem transfer. The xmodem chopping is intelligent, as it even worked correctly with a local board which adds unusual xmodem padding to files. There are several different buffer options, among them "view received text" in a seperate window with scroll bars, and transfer between the clipboard and the buffer in either IFF or TxEd format (clip-buffer transfers go both ways). There are the usual extras of setting colours, CR or CR/LF mode, bell/flash or both, wrap or truncate long lines, destructive or transparent cursor (for Hack especially!), up to 132 columns with a 5X8 font (supplied), and user-selectable 8X8 and 5X8 fonts as standard. The remote mode lets you do file transfers and copies, also deletions, on only the volumes you want to allow access to. This mode is password protected, with 2 slightly different sets of options having seperate passwords. Baud rate selections to "midi" are in the menu, but I haven't gone beyond 1200. One other interesting thing they have done is use the ALT and HELP keys as menu shortcut keys, and even incorporated them into menus in the same way as the fancy A. I wonder if they really add this into the Intuition key handler, or just cheat and look at the key qualifier field? All in all, it seems like a real nice package (I haven't found anything to try out the Tektronix emulation on yet), with the only big problem some mysterious crashes - one disk was trashed when it could not locate the 5X8 font I specified, and once a saved config file would keep crashing the program upon booting. And it is mighty big, and slow to boot as it loads in your preferred terminal emulation, phonebook, etc. John