[comp.sys.amiga.introduction] comp.sys.amiga.introduction

macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca (04/25/91)

Whats the best terminal program for the 500?  I've tried NComm
and JR-Comm, but I'd like to see what else is out there.
Specifically, I'm looking for something which will allow me
to selectively cut lines out of the scrollback and save it
to disk - also being able to search through the scrollback buffer
for a phrase would be nice :-)

(Btw, in NComm, where do you have the place the fonts which came
with the program?  I put them in DH0:fonts and DH0:ncomm/fonts and
it still says it can't find them...)

RM - macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca

barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber) (04/25/91)

In article <1991Apr24.211112.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca> macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca writes:

>Specifically, I'm looking for something which will allow me
>to selectively cut lines out of the scrollback and save it
>to disk 

Speaking of which, does anybody know of a utility to select lines
or blocks on the screen and send them to the printer?  I used this
routinely in the IBM world to save printing an entire screen with
the PrtSc key.

> - also being able to search through the scrollback buffer
>for a phrase would be nice :-)

VLT has this feature.   (I haven't used it yet, as I've run out of
space for the necessary library on my disk.  I do a DISKCOPY of my
WB disk to a RAD: disk, and if I could figure out a quick way to
copy all the files on a disk to somewhere else, I'd make a bigger
RAD: and copy a few other things over, as well.  Point is that I 
don't know how well the scrollback feature works.) 

Anyway, other than the problems I've had losing characters when in
the host unix editor (vi), and not having easy access to some of
the standard VT100 keys, I've been relatively pleased with VLT.

(There may be some ways to program in some of the sequences I need,
such as EOL, but I haven't looked into it enough, yet, to know.
I know that I can get into that function key gadgets screen and
get it, but it wants to redo the screen with its keys at the bottom,
when all I really wanted was to do an erase to end of line and be
done with it!)

I'll shut up now!

(Hope this helped more than confused), 

Scott Barber

barber@jazz.concert.net