Re: Proterm 3.1 and a Microcom 14.4 modem

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <55ono5$o1m@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@bnr.ca> wrote:
>either.  Knowing that I couldn't (intuitively) use the
>keyboard commands, I tried to use the mouse.  The mouse
>does NOT follow the standard conventions for selecting
>text.  (eg, double click to select word, triple for line,
>shift-drag to select a range)

   Those are _not_ original Apple (or other folks) GUI specs.  They're
newcomers to the scene (AWGS and others don't follow this, nor do
older Mac WPs) that have become popular.

   [Similarly, Mac revisionist historians have forgotten what the
'Maximize' icon in the title bar does. After a lot of System 7, they
think that its function is to resize the window to either the full
screen or whatever encloses the Finder window's contents, whichever is
smaller. Macs system 1-6.0.8 and the GS are the original standard: the
full screen.]

   PT 3.1 is about 3-4 years old, I think. Don't confuse Apple Human
Interface Guidelines from 1996 with the guidelines from 1992-93. Those
guidelines have not remained carved in stone, but have evolved. 'Nuff
said.

Nathan Mates
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