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From: cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.M. Stuntz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Good vt220 terminal emulator for PC
Message-ID: <2499@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 90 19:44:31 GMT
References: <1990Mar17.222702.16864@virtech.uucp>
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Organization: Information Systems and Computing @ RIT, Rochester, New York
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In article <1990Mar17.222702.16864@virtech.uucp> dennis@virtech.uucp (Dennis P. Bednar) writes:
>The company I work for is looking for a good terminal emulator
>that runs on the IBM-PC, under MS-DOS, that emulates the vt220
>keyboard fairly accurately. Main requirements:
>
>	- ability to work with WordPerfect 5.1 running on a VAX-VMS,
>	- the keypad keys on the PC keyboard should emulate the vt200 keypad.
>
				SmarTerm 240 , by Persoft , emulates a
VT240 , including the ability to display ReGIS and Tektronix graphic
images , and comse with a couple utilities for converting VMS and IBM
WordPerfect files . the program , however , is quite lacking in many
areas . although it has just been updated ( i have not used the new
version , but i understand that the emulation has been improved to the
VT300 series and the keyboard remapping has been improved some ) , it
still lacks a dialing directory . this meand that in order to dial the
modem , you must _type_ ATDT xxx-xxxx ... however , you can define a
macro key to do this . SmarTerm is also rediculously expensive for the
program that it is .

				the *best* keyboard remapping , bar none
, is the _shareware_ program QVT , version 4.15 , that runs under
Microsoft Windows . its keyboard remapping is worlds apart from any
other program , the one glaring exception being that it lacks a compose
character key , although you can still access the extended character set
by using Alt-numeric key sequences . it lacks SmarTerms ability to
display graphic images , but comes with its own windows font that
enables it to display the full VT200 character set .also , it definately
gets the " bang for the buck " award : since it is shareware , you can
try it free , and the registration fee is only $50 , if you decide you
want to keep it . you _do_ need to be running Microsoft Windows , though
.

							-a.stranger

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