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From: martens@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VT-100 Emulators & ONLINE!
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Date: 2 Oct 90 21:14:11 GMT
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In article <59740@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:

>Could one of you folks mail me or post or something a specific (useful)
>thing that online! doesn't do right?  I've used all of the 'big 4'
>[vlt, vt100, Online! and AT3] to dial into my SUN workstation at BBN
>from my Amiga at home, and generally the VT100 emulation is just not a
>problem.  My only criticism of Online!'s vt100 emulation is that it is
>SLOW, but in terms of 'decent vt-100 emulation', Online seems to do
>OK.  What *is* it that you folks do with your comm programs that so
>clearly show up Online's problems?

I use Online (why an exclamation?  I haven't seen anything to get too
excited about) for my daily needs, and regularly use the VT100
emulation.  There are some problems using emacs in a Sun, but these
can mostly be worked around by occasionally repainting the screen.  If
you want to see a program that presumably works with a real VT100 but
is unusable with Online, try the Ohio State U. Library Control System,
the world's most archaic and useless computerized library system.  You
can get at via telnet at:  lcs.us.ohio-state.edu
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-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu)

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