#: 12364 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    21-Sep-91  20:44:15
Sb: #12205-OSK standards
Fm: Robert A. Larson 75126,723
To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)

No, I'm not on delphi.  Go ahead and upload my responce there if you like. 
Please note that I answer my mail faster on the StG network (blarson@zog)
(zog's cavern bbs is at (818)761-4721) and the Internet
(blarson@abode.ttank.com and (this one appears to be loosing mail)
blarson@usc.edu) than I do here on compuserve.

Graphics: For more than box drawing, I think the only real standard is X.  The
osk community may need to develop its own standard, this is not something every
programmer should have to reinvent.

Xmode can be used to set the type and baud rate.  Unfortunatly, on both osk
systems I have used, this does not take effect until the device is closed and
deinized.  If your systems don't have this problem, that is good, but be aware
that your compeditors systems do have this problem and they need to fix it.

It looks like I've only been using the S_ISHARE since 1986, obviously to new an
idea to have caught on yet :-)  (That's the date on the oldest instance of this
I could easily locate -- of course any test versions are long gone.)

You'll probably find my name on any versions of kermit you are using on an os9
system, (although the 68k assebly version wasn't mine) and I've been using osk
since version 1.2.  Although my name isn't as familiar as some others, please
don't treat me like a newcommer.  I don't have one of your systems because I
didn't here of you until long after I had my QT20x.  Do you have a system that
competes with it?

The uucp version I am working on seems to be working ok for file transfers with
all the unix versions I have tested against, so it should be released
reasonably soon (by the end of the year :-) unless uuxqt is as much of a mess
as the file transfer part was.  (I don't want to get into the problems I've had
with this port right now.)

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