[Alpine-info] Alpine on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch

[Mark Crispin]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

>> At long last, it is possible to run a working, scalable, IMAP client on your

>> iPhone and iPod Touch instead of Apple's buggy Mail.app.

> Umm, if you know about bugs, WRITE UP BUGS.  developer.apple.com, with a free

> online only account.


In the past couple of years, I wrote up about dozen bugs in Mail.app and 
iToy.  I'm still waiting for fixes.

I can no longer justify spending many long hours of my time giving free 
technical information to a company that does not value it.  I will 
reconsider if Apple issues me a standing purchase order that I can 
invoice.  Perhaps Apple respects technical information more if they pay 
for it.


> How do you type control-characters?


That's a function of the terminal emulator.  In the one that I use, the 
center-dot key is a prefix for control.  Thus, a CTRL/C is a five stroke 
sequence: [123] [#+=] [center-dot] [ABC] C.

It is clanky to enter controls, but that is due to the design of the iToy 
keyboard.


> Also, you can't even do 80 columns wide with the phone in landscape, can you?


Using a suitably small font, you could.  6x8 with no intercharacter 
spacing would work, or 5x7 with 1 pixel spacing.

The real problem is that iToy has such a tiny screen resolution.  The 
Nokia N800 and N810 has twice as many pixels in a screen that is only 1/2 
inch longer.

-- Mark --

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