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- TITLE
- HFT 38.30
-
- AUTHOR
- Herbert West
- email: ali@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
-
- DESCRIPTION
- HFT is a very small ANSI terminal program. It was written mainly because
- there were no terminal programs i really liked on the Amiga. I wanted a
- term which was small, reliable, with just the bare essentials. I also
- wanted to learn how to program amiga devices. The main features of HFT
- are...
-
- o Console support with cut & paste
- o Reliable ANSI terminal emulation
- o Compatible with all serial.device clones. HFT was tested on
- serial, baudbandit, uw, and nullmodem devices
- o Opens on the default public screen
-
- Ok, so why should you use HFT instead of other terminal programs?
- You will not want to use HFT if you expect VT100 emulation or transfer
- protocols. I get by without VT100 on unix systems by using the amiga
- termcap, and running Terminus in the background for transfers. Yes, I
- also use auw :) Anyway, these are the reasons you should use HFT...
-
- o Very efficient, robust code
- o Very small executable size
- o Can be made resident
- o Takes full advantage of OS 2.04 and above
- o I wrote it ;)
-
- HFT looks for it's config file in PROGDIR:HFT.n.prefs, where n is the
- session number. If you make HFT resident, PROGDIR: is not defined, and
- you will get a requester asking you to insert volume PROGDIR:. To get
- around this problem, you can create an environment variable called
- HFTCONFIGPATH which points to the directory where your HFT settings are
- stored.
-
- So have I convinced you? Who cares! it's a free program, so use it if
- you like it, and throw it away if you dont. If you do like it, check out
- other programs in the HFx range, including HFK and many others to come!
-
- BTW, the author assumes no responsability for the reliability of this
- software, or any damage it may cause. You assume all risks!
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- AmigaOS 2.1. 2.04 with V38 of asl.library will also work fine.
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- HFT is Copyright 1992-93 by Herbert West and may be freely distributed
- as long as it's archive is left in it's original condition. If you use
- HFT, you should send email to the author saying you like it, and make
- some suggestions. Please dont suggest either xpr's or VT100 ;-)
-
- HFT should be available on all aminet sites in /pub/aminet/comm/term
-