Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!bcw
From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulation Software wanted for DEC Rainbow
Summary: Terminal emulation programs for the Rainbow
Message-ID: <3060@rti.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 89 05:01:59 GMT
References: <5509@misadel.oz> <3053@rti.UUCP> <1184@cs.rit.edu>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <1184@cs.rit.edu>, iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik) writes:
> In article <3053@rti.UUCP> bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> >LCTERM supports KERMIT and XMODEM file transfer protocols as well.
> >Bruce C. Wright
>    
> Ah, how soon we forget...  Or, maybe Bruce didn't know about...
> 
>    Stew Stryker and Ian Fraser's public domain VT220/VT241 emulator called
>    TurboComm II is out there!.  The latest version I have on hand is dated
>    6-19-87, though I think I have a later version in my pile of PD disks.
> 
>    TurboComm supports ASCII, Xmodem, and Telink file transfers.  It's
>    slick piece of public domain software for the Rainbow.  Too bad a lot
>    of the "commercial" Rainbow stuff looked and worked as well as LCTERM
>    and TurboComm. 

Didn't know about - I've never heard of TurboComm II before.  How well
does it support the VT241?  I have an application where I would very much
like using the Rainbow as a graphics terminal but there aren't any commercial
programs out there (at least any more) and the latest version of Kermit still
doesn't support graphics for the Rainbow (I was even thinking about retro-
fitting the graphics module for the latest Kermit into the Rainbow, which
shouldn't be too horrible, but it's enough trouble that I'm not sure I'll
get to it any time soon).

I guess I'll still have to keep my old terminal emulation programs around
regardless - unfortunately a lot of the things I do require Kermit file
transfers;  it's the most likely file transfer protocol to find on some
random VAX or PDP-11.  Why did they leave it out?

I'll have to look it up - sounds like it might be interesting.

							Bruce C. Wright