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From: vic@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Vic Rattlehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Best TERM
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Date: 3 Nov 90 02:29:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 24 Oct 90 19:36:28 GMT


In article <1990Oct24.193628.27590@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:

>Hi.  Well, I've tried Handshake, JR-COmm and VLT.  Handshake provides
>the best VT100, althouhg it is still not perfect.    I like the
>features of VLT and JR-Comm.  Sadly, none of them have bullet-proof
>VT100.  What is the BEST term (commercial or PD) for the Amiga?
>I know that this is a religious issue 8-)

A good term program, that seems relatively unknown is Meshugena.
Here's a small summary of its good and bad features.

Good points:

vt220 emulation (the best I've seen) 
80/132 column support
supports double wide/double size characters, and blinking
multiple sessions/windows with uw (similar to dnet)
scrollback buffer
Windows can be iconified.
keyboard is setup right.
it's shareware (I believe)

Bad points:

no file xfer.
no printer support (who cares?)
no script language
bell is only video.
cant save scrollback buffer


Meshugena is definately worth looking into if you are interested in
good emulation.


-Vic