Re: Proterm 3.1 and a Microcom 14.4 modem

[jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <01bbcbde$d906cb60$daf30c26@tomz>,
Tom Zuchowski <tjz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I'm not a big fan of rodent usage.

Like the PT3 manual sez, many people use the mouse until they learn
the keyboard cmds.  I prefer VI to all else for simple text editting,
but an intuitive mouse interface should make it easy to use an
unfamiliar editor.

>Perhaps you've figured it out by now, but all you have to do is select the
>scrollback text and hit oa-D.  It's in the drop-down scrollback Edit menu,
>so I am somewhat mystified why you found it so difficult to do.  But that's
>neither here nor there, I guess.

As I said, it was the selecting I found hard.  The menu command was easy
enough to find.

>I'll admit that PT3.1 has a steep learning curve.  That is a drawback.

See my point above about mice.

Cheers,
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