Hello Richard!



Wednesday June 26 1996 14:01, Richard Webb wrote to all:



 RW> Hello everyone,



 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 should

 RW> be addressed, or the terminal mode itself dropped.

Been using Binkley since Bink came to be....and can say I am not having

Terminal problems calling ANSII systems with v2.60. You are using strong words

to say Hello to everyone.



 RW> Many times, when calling a bbs which insists on using ansi graphics,

 RW> I've gotta wade through all that crappola.  AS a speech user the

 RW> garbage characters obscure prompts, etc which are necessary.



Sounds like your system is not running an ansi.com/vfossil correctly.



 RW> To compound the problem, the damn terminal seems to want to omit

 RW> characters in the middle of words, etc.

Sounds like a misconfiguration, bad comm fossil load or bad connection. Does

not happen on this XT or the AT over here.



 RW> THis makes it almost unusable as a reliable terminal mode.

 RW> All of the systems I'm calling with it use n 8 1, but, I can access

 RW> them with any other term program and have no problem.  This problem

 RW> doesn't occur with any consistency, just at certain times.

Because it can't be duplicated at will, sounds like your system. Remember,

BinkleyTerm is a front end MAILER. It has a built in quick, no frills,

SYSOP terminal program that is supposed to be NO FRILLS. If you want bells and

whistles, use the terminal programs you mention. We, the real long term users

of BinkleyTerm like our little Terminal. It does not take a whole lot of memory

away from our mailer.



Please don't come in here and say our Terminal program should be dropped from

this very good package. You will do more irritating then reception of good help

to fix your problems.



Good luck,



....Russ.



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