Matt Pobursky wrote:
> If you want to hear a very funny story about Hyperterminal and the ISS 
> just
> let me know. Oh heck, I'll tell it anyway...
[snip]

There's no indication in your story as to what caused the problem, do you 
remember what it was?

We use HT at work almost every day to provide support for our products, and 
when I was heavily involved in tech support I used it too -- the reason is 
the same as that given to you by NASA: every version of Windows ships with 
it.

It is certainly surprising that for as long as Microsoft had been shipping 
HT (up until Vista), the bugs have never been fixed. Like, when the text 
scrolls out of the "active" part of the window, you would see weird 
characters, strings from previous sessions mixed in, etc.

The engineer I work with prefers TeraTerm, and we're starting to move toward 
providing automated wizard-style troubleshooters/expert systems so the 
customers would not have to type in the same boring list of commands (btw, 
that reminds me -- I have a question regarding this I'll ask in another 
post).

Vitaliy

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