HFS compatibe GS term program

[ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Alexander Siegfried)]

Concerning Spectrum, Jeff wrote:

>Why not use the ANSI emulation instead.  After all, colour ANSI that is
>used on IBM BBS's is just a superset of VT-100 (which was also called
>ANSI way back when).  Mind you, you're still not using the desktop with
>the menu bar, which is the way I would prefer it to work.  :(

Because it doesn't work.


>You can set the scrollback to filter junk if you want to.  There is a
>script command to filter what gets put into the scrollback buffer and
>you just have to put that command in a file called User.Script in the
>Spectrum.Scripts folder.  It will be loaded and executed every time
>Spectrum starts.  This is only available with Spectrum v2.0, by the
>way.

No, that isn't it. I have v2.0. Spectrum's scrollback is a reflection of
the capture buffer (at least this is the default setting - I don't want
to see the "standard" scrollback content). Unfortunately, the capture
buffer is everything but a true mirror of the actual terminal display
content. And no, I don't want to mess around with Spectrum's filter just
to have a proper scrollback / capture file. This really stinks!

Problem with Spectrum is that its main focus is on the scripting
language, which seems to be the perhaps most powerful of all other
communication programs an any computer. But Spectrum's author
completely forgot to get all the standard features of such a program
right. If the terminal emulation and scrollback, the parts that mark
the interface to the user, are poor, the program turns out to be
nearly useless.

I think exactly this is why many people dislike Spectrum and continue
using ProTERM.


Clue / Ninjaforce