Richard Webb wrote in a message to all:

 RW> I've been a Binkleyterm booster from when I started, and still am,
 RW> but the terminal mode has some glaring weaknesses which either
 RW> should be  addressed,
 RW> or the terminal mode itself dropped.  

BinkleyTerm is a mailer, not a terminal program. The way I see it, I get a
decently-functional terminal for free along with my free mailer.

I don't see the reasoning for dropping support for the terminal portion
just because it's doesn't do everything.


 RW> Many times, when calling a bbs which insists on using ansi
 RW> graphics, I've  gotta wade through all that crappola.  AS a speech
 RW> user the garbage  characters obscure prompts, etc which are
 RW> necessary.  

How does BinkleyTerm's terminal program cause this problem? It sounds like
a configuration problem with the called BBS.

 RW> To compound the problem, the damn terminal seems to want to omit 
 RW> characters in the middle of words, etc.  

Doesn't happen here. May be a configuration problem with your buggy fossil,
or a system configuration issue.

Why does this indicate that it's a BinkleyTerm problem?

IMO, BinkleyTerm's ability to act as a terminal is a nice plus that I
choose to accept gratefully. If I need features that aren't available in
the BT Term, like VT220 emulation, I shell out to DOS and use Procomm Plus.
I won't demand that BinkleyTerm be a full-featured terminal program - it's
a mailer.


--- timEd 1.10+