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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: VT PRO does Emacs (a couple of questions too)
Summary: should i upgrade?
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Date: 5 Oct 90 18:55:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson )
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 All the terminal emulation
>programs I've tried, however, trap characters, such as control-s, which
>emacs needs to receive.

VT-PRO sends the control-s fine.  I use it with emacs all of the 
time.  

I did have trouble with the 'rlogin' communication stripping
some of the necessary control characters on the U#!x end.
(control-z if memory serves)  A unix type person did
some voo-do to fix that problem.

Speaking of VT Pro / emacs...

I am running VT PRo 1.x . It is very nice and stable,
however it does one or two irratating things.

-does not make full use of my extended keyboard.  I could live
 without the function keys but I want the keypad to work
 like a Vt100 keypad.  (some of the keys work, some dont)
 (by the way it works correctly with a standard Mac+ keyboard)

-doesn't play nicely under multifinder.  I cant move the
 tek graphics window out of the way of whatever might be behind it.

-can't set the kermit packet size higher than 90

-can't save the tek graphics at better that 72dpi

-pretty lousy macro system

-cant adjust the size of the stream buffer

my question is, have any of these things been fixed.  
Should I upgrade.   What other improvements would I see?

By the way I do need the tek emulation (rules out all competition
i think)

also, is there any way to do _kermit_ transfers in the
background. (my unix doesn't do xmodem, dont ask me why..)

-thanks in advance for any insight



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-george   @sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu