Anzio tutorial

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Walter Vaughan wrote:

> I've been using PuTTy for many years now, but before I "put to rest" an
> ancient version of Anzio, I downloaded a version 15 Anzio-Lite demo in order
> to give it a last look.
>
> What cave have I been in?

We've been busy!

>
> The scroll mouse works just like a windows user expects.
>
> I kinda have never been impressed with terminal emulators that could operate
> menus, however I think I'm missing the boat now.
>
> Has anyone written a developers guide for filepro applications in order to
> maximize the usage of a mouse in a filePro/Anzio? A style guide in order to
> avoid misleading the operation or creating un-intended keystrokes?
>
> As I see it now, even getting the cursor to move to any entry field when in
> "update" mode is solvable (I'm guessing).

I think you're referring to Anzio's emulation of Xterm mouse-to-host
protocols. I don't know if anyone has integrated this into filePro yet.

>
> Anyone using the "speak" commands?

No that I know of. I'd be happy to jointly play with it.

>
> Any other features using Anzio that you just couldn't do with a DT-100
> terminal or PuTTy?

Well, lets see...

* User macros
* Sizeable screen
* Commands from the host
* Backchannel printing
* Unicode support
* Print Wizard
* PDF generation
* FTP
* SFTP
* Drag and drop onto Anzio
...

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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