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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: vt220 terminal emulation over telnet
Keywords: vt220 telnet terminal emulation
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.211520.3965@svc.portal.com>
Date: 9 Sep 90 21:15:20 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.155606.24751@nbc1.ge.com> <10074@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Sep7.075255.10599@lth.se>
Organization: Software Venture
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In article <1990Sep7.075255.10599@lth.se> roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) writes:
>In article <10074@goofy.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, fire fighter) writes:
>>You might consider MacTerminal 3.0, which supports the Communications Toolbox 
>>and is Connection Manager, Terminal Manager and File Transfer Manager
>>compliant (which means you can add new connection terminal and file transfer
>>support)
>
>Does the VT tools support printer redirection (ESC [ 5 i  and  ESC [ 4 i)?
>
	Not unless they have changed their opinions about text stream 
printing on the Macintosh.  When Apple first announced the CTB, one of the
first questions I asked was this one, and the responce at the time was NO WAY
(followed by lots of implementation reasons that I won't go into).  This 
applies to _ALL_ of the print related VTxxx sequences.

	I agree with you that this is a BIG problem for many, which is why I
pushed Apple to at least THINK about it.  One of my original proposals, which
would be useful for other things, would be a 'callback' mechanism so that tools
could let the application know that it encounted something that it didn't know
about and 'Do you want to handle it?'.  You could do this on the FRONT END to
the tool, but inserting your own search strings for these sequences into the
Connection Manager, but then you have to write the application...

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
MicroPhone II Development Team