[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] Telix and large displays

wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (01/23/91)

In article <4793@cvl.umd.edu> brian@cvl.umd.edu (Brian Miller) wrote:

	I recently grabbed a copy of Telemate to replace my aging
	Procomm2.4.2 (I really wanted a 43-line display).

In article <1991Jan23.050551.4855@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
replied:

	I'm not advocating here one program over another.  Just
	for the the general information that also Telix has these
	alternative display sizes.  (At uwasa.fi see the /pc/pd2
	directory for Telix). 

My comments:

If you're going to use large display sizes with Telix, though, be sure
you get the latest release (the one which is called "3.12A" on several
systems -- although Exis Inc., to the best of my knowledge, still
insists on calling it "3.12" and is upset at those who do otherwise).

The original "3.12" had a bug which caused certain VT102 escape
sequences to scramble Telix's character translation tables if you were
using a display with more than 25 lines.  This bug was fixed several
months ago, and the current "3.12" (the one some people call "3.12A")
has this fix.

I use the current "3.12" version of Telix on a 50-line VGA display all
the time.  I highly recommend Telix.

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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (01/24/91)

In article <1991Jan23.081107.8131@cs.ucla.edu> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
:
>If you're going to use large display sizes with Telix, though, be sure
>you get the latest release (the one which is called "3.12A" on several
>systems -- although Exis Inc., to the best of my knowledge, still
>insists on calling it "3.12" and is upset at those who do otherwise).
:

Right.  At Simtel20 and uwasa.fi we have it as 3.12A to avoid
confusion.  BTW much talk on a new Procomm+ and a new Telix release. 
The former, I think, already advertised, the latter being in a test
phase. 

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