On 26 Jun 96 02:01pm, Richard Webb wrote to all:

 RW> Hello everyone,

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

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

 RW> To compound the problem, the damn terminal seems to want to omit
 RW> characters in the middle of words, etc.
 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
 RW> access them with any other term program and have no problem.
 RW> This problem doesn't occur with any consistency, just at
 RW> certain times. I"ve had it happen both on this machine and on
 RW> my personal machine. This machine is using a buggy version of
 RW> bnu, v 1.8 something or other.  Could this be contributing to
 RW> the problem?

Well, I can honestly say that I've never had the problems with the
terminal mode you describe above on any of my systems running Binkley.
I've run it with both X00 and SIO.  I was not impressed with BNU.

George


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