Re: New Stuff! woo hoo!

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3imfqu$des@terrazzo.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody.  I got my Spectrum 2.0 upgrade and Balloon 2.0 today, and 
> Spectrum ABSOLUTELY rules.  I've only touched the surface of what this 
> baby is capable of, and ALL the little annoying quirks of 1.0 are GONE!  

Likewise (got mine about a week ago).  There is a bug in the VT-100
driver that I noticed in 1.0 which is still there in 2.0.  In certain
cases while editing in MicroEmacs on my UNIX host, it stuffs up the
screen.  I've tracked down what is causing this and told Seven Hills,
so it should be fixed eventually.

There is an annoying feature in the VT-100 driver (this is the one
that runs in text mode, for those who aren't familiar with Spectrum).
It displays underlined text by reversing the case of underlined
letters.  For exaple, all my news titles (in trn) have weird case, and
links in Lynx look weird as well.

I want to be able to turn this feature off again.  In the previous
version, underlining was not detectable, and I was happy with that.

Otherwise, version 2 is great.  I haven't used the scripting language
much, and that is where the majority of the changes are, so I haven't
noticed much in the way of new features.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand