(My humble opinion)
Tom,
You *should* participate in the discussion, I guess you are best
informed person in Vista details.
It is not advertisement, it is technical discussion, so your
participation is perfectly justified and welcome. Please do.
Regarding tech details: I don't care about ftp client. In fact I have
never used a client delivered with PCOMM or Nexus. Reasons? a) ftp CLI
is enough for me, b) there are plenty of ftp clients, some of them quite
sophisticated like Filezilla.
However I much appreciate PCOMM features related to IND$FILE. Not very
clear for newbies, awfully translated to Polish, but really useful and
last but not least: scriptable! There are simple SRL (text) scripts for
mass unload/upload.
Recently we discussed options when ftp is not allowed. This is the option.
(disclaimer: I did not use Vista for many years, so I rely on Tom's
opinion "minimal IND$FILE")
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Radoslaw Skorupka
(looking for new job)
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 01.05.2021 o 02:53, Tom Brennan pisze:
That's true about the features, I only implemented a subset of
possibilities, and mostly that's on purpose. For example, there's no
FTP, minimal IND$FILE, no HLLAPI, no GDDM (although I did try once
with help from the 3270 stream master, Greg Price). No SNA printing,
no 5250, and just enough standard telnet to hopefully get you through
a firewall. No 3290 partitions. No linear Copy, only block.
Tabs (mentioned here), I would like to do, but because of the single
(giant) internal control block I used it's pretty difficult. So I
keep saying I'll do that, "tomorrow".
For fonts, I chose old style bitmapped (raster) fonts because at the
time with Win 3.1 and small screens True-Types were difficult to read.
So I spent many weeks each evening with my wife coming home from work
wondering why I'm clicking dots in a font editor. Anyone can have
those fonts if you want (just email me), but they are useless unless
the emulator has a bitmap font option - rare these days I would
think. I do have a True-Type version that I offer to folks in cases
where the bitmap fonts are too limiting.
Sorry to steal your post Skip :) I'm trying to avoid replying here
because I don't want it to look like a promotion.
On 4/30/2021 4:48 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
I can't promise that Vista has all the functions discussed in this
thread, but in the years that I've used it, I've seen Tom add a lot
of new variations. I suggest that curious cats spend a few minutes
exploring the 'Paste Functions' enumerated under the Edit menu.
Several of those were provided to handle unusual situations that are
not strictly 'editing' but rather a means of transferring data
displayed by one App into another possible unrelated App. These
functions are possible because 'copy' takes some part of a delineated
display, strips out all formatting indicators, and (re)builds a
'paste' buffer according to the requirements of the function being
invoked. If it doesn't work as desired, Tom is famous for
implementing new function.
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Linea meaning wrapping, i.e., copying consequtive buffer locations
without regard to line boundaries. Both block and linear copies are
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Here's an example of a block copy in Vista. What's a linear copy? You
mean, without regard to line endings? No, I don't think so. You could
certainly use your favorite stream-oriented editor to remove the line
endings.
Menu Utilities Compilers O
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ISPF
Option ===>
0 Settings Terminal and u
1 View Display source
2 Edit Create or chan
3 Utilities Perform utilit
Charles
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What about a linear copy?
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