Re: Desiderata. [LONG, sorry]

[Ged Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > For xterms I'm not sure which ones support it.
> 
> None that I know of.  scoterm probably does, etc., but none of the xterms do.

I'm not going to bother with X for the forseeable future.  Performance is too 
bad.

> (Like anything else, it's doable - but I did look into it last year and saw
> it's not a 1-hour job - more like a day).
> 
> > > (b) Control of NUMLOCK and CAPSLOCK if they exist.  And SCROLLLOCK and
> ...
> It's unlikely that we'd add this, since it would be very machine-specific.
> Most platforms don't provide any support for it.

Yup, that's what I thougt.  I'll have to do it myself.  No big deal.

> There are some problems with PDCurses X11 (I've run into them using lynx).

I tried it out last night but the preformance was hopeless so I'm back
to ncurses which is fine on a 400MHz machine.

> But it does run well enough to demonstrate, so I have added that as an
> option for the curses programs which I'm maintaining.

> > > [PS] Since joining the list I have received truckloads of SPAM through
> > > the list server.  Is this a common experience?
> 
> The alternative is to close the list to nonsubscribers.  (I don't think
> that's 100% effective since I've gotten spam on that type of list as well).

Well it would be an easy way to stop 99 percent of it.  I'm experimenting
with Mail::SpamAssassin at the moment.  If it works well I'll let you know.

73,
Ged.