John,
I sure do read that way, but I make the choice of when the page turns - not the
book!
If some people prefer this "feature", that's fine, but I totally dislike it.
It's unnerving to see the letters coming in, get to the bottom of the screen,
and poof - where'd they go? Oh it's coming in at the top again. Since I'm an
old terminal user, where the text keeps going, and going, and going, and going,
I would strongly prefer to keep it that way. I want to reduce the amount of
eye movement while I'm operating. If the new text always appeared on the
bottom line of that screen, it would be a whole lot easier to focus on it.
All modem programs that I am aware of since 300 baud days, worked the way I
would like it to be. Most Packet Terminal programs work that way too. Even
Writelog's packet screen always displays at the bottom of the window.
To be honest, to me, this "feature" is just plain annoying.
Bob N5NJ
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "WA9ALS - John" <ham_reflectors@wa9als.com>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Date: Sun, Jan-25-2004 6:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] RTTY Questions
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj@gte.net>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 11:41 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] RTTY Questions
>
>
> > I may toss the Rigblaster and just make my own to clear up this mystery.
>
> Now there's a fresh idea! <$5 with 3 components too. You could sell the
> Rigblaster on Ebay...
>
> > The complaint is regarding the scrolling of the rttyrite screen. How do I
> make it stop doing what ever it does where when it fills up the screen, it
> goes back up to the top. I don't know where to look. New text should
> always appear at the bottom, and then the old text should just scroll up.
>
> I think most of us consider this a -feature- It's natural since you
> normally read left to right and top to bottom. Do you read the newspaper
> from bottom to top? If you've come from WF1B, it will seem a little funny
> at first, but if you stick with it, shortly you will be a convert! ;-)
>
> 73 - John, WA9ALS
> www.waa9als.com
>
>
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