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From: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Incompatable term emulation for pc telecom packages?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 16:57:49 GMT
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In article <5422@milton.u.washington.edu> markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes:
->I thought it would be straightforward. All I wanted to do was use my pc
->at home as a terminal on a sun or next at work. But when I try to
->phone in with procomm or qmodem using vt100 emulation, I cannot reliably
->use VI or Emacs. I've tried the vt-100 termcaps on both machines plus
->a good vt100 termcap from another machine on the NeXT. The lines
->on the screen dont match up correctly, and emacs seems totally blown.
->alot of the ctrl-keys dont seem to work right. (ex: open file then try
->to quit wioth ctrl-z and it comes back with 'do you want to save' or
->whatever. It beeps whenever I press most keys, and others generate
->some sort of 'inapropriate key' sort of message). I have tried it in
->8-n-1 and 7-e-1 for the fun of it.
->Any suggestions?
->
->Thanks 
->Mark

What you need is a terminal programme with "authentic" enough
emulation to use VI.

I've successfully used both
PC-VT (several versions, shareware)
Professional YAM (from Omen Technology, about $US 150.00, at least
that is what I paid about 5 years ago).

Mark
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