Digital Responses + _______ _________ To + __ FMS Menu + ___ ____ DECUS Symposium Spring 1981 Miami Beach, Florida ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSE + ____ ___________ ________ 53 Multiple contexts/streams A worthy and ambitious long-term goal. per terminal. Not likely in next release. 48 Support non-DEC terminals or Unlikely. provide specs/interfaces so users can. 56 Provide a single reference Unlikely, but we will make the various manual for all O/S (e.g., implementations even more identical and Fortran IV Plus). document all compatibility/portability issues. 44 Single character I/O Has top priority for next release. interfaces with swapping. 50 Data Conversion (Integer We'll consider it. and Real). 58 Source licenses? We don't have them. 47 Support VT100 line-drawing Probable for next release. See answers character set. for Double High/Wide. 51 More field validation (eg., Next version will probably add some range checks, table look-up). more validations and make it easier for you to add your own. 45 Alternate keypad invokable Unlikely for next release. on a Per-Key Basis. 52, Support more than one We'll consider it for next release. 33 terminal/task. 46 Support VT100 Double Height Probable for next release. FDV works if and Double Width Characters. you can figure out how to patch your forms. Ian Darwin1 has done this successfully. 49 Provide Graphics Support. Full Graphics would make FMS a different product and is therefore unlikely. Mark Sebern2 has ideas on ways to build such a system on top of FMS. ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSE + ____ ___________ ________ 54 Hardcopy Snapshots of Probably in next release. Short-term Terminal Activity. alternatives include SWS modifications (already done for RSX, in process for VMS) and VT1XX-AC printer port option. 41 Split screen support in Lack of horizontal scrolling is Horizantal and Vertical terminal HW characteristic that would directions. kill performance if emulated. Some amount of this can be achieved today via scrolling, clever overlaying of forms, clever use of video attributes etc. 42 Call like FGETAL to start in Will consider for furture release. middle of form and continue to end. 55 Reduce program overhead Top priority for next release. requirments. 39 Document the use of FMS-11 We will consider the use of FMS with with Pascal. any DIGITAL Pascals that are available at the time of the next release. We recommend the documentation of non-DIGITAL Pascals as an activity for the FMS working group of the DMS SIG. 57 Support BASIC-11 under RSX Unlikely. BASIC-PLUS-TWO is our main for easier migration from offering in this space. Besides, moving BASIC-11/RT-11. programs back and forth is quite simple - we do it all the time. 43 126th form in a library is To be fixed in the next release of FMS. not accessible. 34 Hardcopy terminal support for Not in next release, maybe later. line-by-line dialogue and messages. 40 Demos distributed with the We have done this VAX-11 FMS. In the kits. Unsupported is OK! future we will try to eliminate the need for this by providing more examples and techniques and formal Ed. Svcs. training. 1. Ian Darwin 2. Dr. Mark Sebern Univ. of Toronto Computing Services Sebern Eng. Inc. 10 King's College Road W55 N815 Cedar Ridge Drive Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Cedarburg, Wisc. 53012 414-375-2200