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From: mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (loki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flash (VT100 emulation)
Message-ID: <317.26ee9315@wsuiar.uucp>
Date: 13 Sep 90 00:57:09 GMT
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In article <35559@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>,
   v051lpqa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Douglas A Lewis) writes:
> Hello all,
>   Does anyone know how to edit flash so that it emulates a VT100 terminal
> correctly.  Flash wont recognize all of the escape sequences.  It doesn't
> seem to be able to recognize things like :
>       Flashing text
>       Double sized text
>       Underlined text
>       Inversed text
>       ... and a few others

To the best of my recollection, Flash doesn't recognize any of the VT100 AVO
(Advanced Video Option) features, which most of those are.  Are you sure about
the inversed text, though?  I recall using Flash with EDT a lot.

Flash basically handles the things that the plainest-vanilla VT100 would be
able to handle, except for 132-column mode.

For a more capable terminal emulator, I would recommend Uniterm.  It does a
pretty good job with almost all the VT100 stuff, including a good hack for
the 132-column mode (you get about 126).  The VT220 clone I'm typing this on
doesn't do as good a job as Uniterm.  Also, it has Kermit built in, besides
the BBS-oriented protocols.  And the price is right.

> Also, does anyone know what the most recent version of flash is?
>   I am using version 1.6

Can't help you there - the last version I used was 1.52 or something close.

Max J.