Hi Robert, you're right... and many of those errors were because I wrote Vista initially for Windows 3.1, without using some of the built-in functions for dialog windows. I used more of my own code because I wanted things to look more like Win 95 while still running 3.1. That was fine at the time, but of course Windows advanced and my dialogs were left in the dust. So I need to work on that.

And a minute ago I said I thought GDDM graphics are unused. Well, I said the same thing about IND$FILE back in 1998, thinking it would be totally replaced by FTP. I was certainly wrong about that! Today I think people use IND$FILE more than ever for smaller file transfers. And there are folks like you without FTP available - I know how that is, logging on to a customer's mainframe and needing to upload something like SHOWMVS.

Robert Prins wrote:
On 2017-11-22 11:24, David Cole wrote:

I simply don't understand why anyone would still be putting up with PCOMM.

Tom Brennan Vista remains both well and fully supported.
It is, was, and will always be the best.


It probably is the best, but it also has, at least for me, a few annoying "features":

- the ind$file dialog cannot be resized (I cannot use FTP)
- the File transfer settings menu lacks a pull-down with all options
- it's not possible to keep macros in multiple directories
- accidentally recording a macro (while trying to play it) doesn't warn you that the current macro will be overwritten

Robert

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