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