anzio 15.2...need a tip

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On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:04:29PM -0800, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Bob Rasmussen cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> I don't believe you can eliminate it. It's used for some status feedback, 
> such as communication errors. Also, some terminal models use a status line 
> (logically different from Anzio's status line). 

Thanks for the quick reply, Bob!

> We probably COULD make it removeable, but you're the only person who has 
> ever complained.

*laugh*  Why does that -not- surprise me?  I'm really picky about user
interfaces.  There's something disconcerting about a blank line sitting
there that never gets used.  Makes me keep wanting to issue the X11
`resize` command to eliminate a conflict between terminal size on the host
vs client, which is when you'd usually see something like that.

I'm actually contemplating upgrading to 16.2y.  I've got 15.2j.  Having a
hard time justifying it without seeing a changelog between the two, though.

I do see SFTP was added.  You really should add SCP.  SFTP is not
necessarily enabled on all SSH servers, as you can undefine the service
in the daemon config.  SCP is inherent, to the best of my knowledge.

Curious to see what else was added.

I use PuTTY all the time.  Most of the time that's fine.  I mainly use
Anzio when I work with SCO boxes, which is getting more and more rare.
Still, built-in zmodem is a win.  Built-in SCP would be cooler.  :)

I was just playing with fonts.  Remember our fun font discussion a year or
three back?  I actually am getting a totally different aspect ratio for the
same font, depending on what I set the point size to.  If I set it to 22,
it's practically 4:3.  If I set it to 18, it's closer to 16:9, and keeps
going more widescreen the smaller the point size.  Bizarre, if the scaling
was being done proportionately to preserve aspect ratio.

I also found what used to be an annoying need to have to scroll to get at
all the configuration options for colours several years back.  The problem
was that I had "large fonts" (125dpi) enabled in Windows back then.  I
don't now (96dpi), and it works fine.  Like a lot of applications, Anzio
(at least 15.x) isn't fond of the "large fonts" setting in Windows.  But
it's not alone by a long shot.  I stopped using it for that very reason,
and got myself glasses instead.  :)

Dunno how much of these things were fixed in 16, but if they weren't, I did
figure you might like to know the causes.

Bests,

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