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From: ell@mitre.org (Edward L. Lafferty)
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Subject: Re: VT100 Emulator Available?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 16:04:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: epsilon@wet.UUCP's message of 20 Jul 89 06:50:04 GMT

In article <299@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:

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   From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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   Why might NeXT not ship a decent terminal emulator?
   Read their Third-Party Programs and Products booklet.

   Look at the ads in any of the magazines targeted at DEC customers;
   vendors get hundreds of dollars for "DEC-compatible" terminal
   emulators for IBM PCs (even though good ones are available for
   free!).

   C'mon, terminal emulators aren't \that/ hard to write.  Somebody
   please volunteer, and stick it on cs.orst.edu.  Simple enough?


I disagree. Having written the one for the Sun -- Public Domain
version, I can tell you that to REALLY emulate a VT100 is a bear! If
all you want is to answer the remote query dequences and then be able
to do straight ascii text display -- sure, maybe not too hard. But ,
graphics, double high, double wide, scrolling, 132 char screen,
reverse, bold, blink, and more and more and more. When I get my NeXT
which should be soon, I'll see what I can do to move the code but I
doubt it will be easy since it is in Sunview form.










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Regards,

Ed

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