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  • Subject: Rumba vs. Client Access
  • From: "Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:36:09 -0400

I am a long-time CA user and have really grown to love it lately for a
variety of reasons.  I found out just how much I really liked it this past
week when I started in a shop that uses Rumba.  Here's what I'm missing in
Rumba that I really liked in CA:

(First some background on the workstation:  It's a WinNT 4.0 with a 15"
monitor running in, I believe, 800x600 mode.  According to the Rumba Help
About, we are using Rumba Office 2000, Version 6.0 U00, Build 1502.0.0; the
PTF tab indicates that there are no PTFs applied.)

1) By far, Rumba's screen font for 27x132 is barely readable.  I have
fumbled around a bit with the display fonts but am using the default
Term400.  The MS Sans Serif font was close, but the characters were too
squeezed together.  The Lucida Console font was another close one.  CA's
27x132 was crisp and clear after a certain service pack was applied.  Can
anyone recommend a good font for this?  I've tried all the ones that were
installed on this system.  (Also, I do not want to have to scroll
horizontally to see the full display.)

2) I loved being able to use the cursor moving function Ctrl-Right Arrow or
Ctrl-Left Arrow.  These were the ones that moved the cursor to the first
non-blank character next or previous to the position that the cursor is
currently located.  It functions exactly like in any normal Windows text
window, i.e., notepad, wordpad, MS Word.  I was able to map the keyboard End
key so that it behaves like it should, i.e., positions the cursor to the end
of the text on the current line instead of Rumba's default erase from
current position to the end of the line.

I am close to asking whether I can get CA installed on this box; I believe
they have a few available licenses.  But I'd rather not bother them with
this if I can get these two things resolved.  

TIA,
Dan Bale
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