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From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation
Summary: Isn't real good.
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.190210.19310@servalan.uucp>
Date: 31 Dec 90 19:02:10 GMT
References: <600@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <37397@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
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In article <37397@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) in <600@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> writes:
>
>	I am running JR-Comm, V1.01 (unregistered) to acess the school's Un*x
>	box.  Upon login, I tell the computer I have a VT100.  This works fine
>	for more and rn.  It does not work well for GnuEmacs :(.
>	Specifically, when I do block inserts or deletes, the screen is not
>	updated properly.  If I do a CTRL/L (screen-refresh), the screen is
>	displayed properly.  Also, the backspace char erases the character it
>	backs over (again, only on the screen).
>
[ ... ]
>
>Sigh.  Don't people read previous postings?  Almost NO terminal emulator for
>ANY computer will properly emulate a VT100 (as tested using vttest).  The one
>I use on the Amiga is Handshake which works PERFECTLY with GNU EMACS, EMACS on
>a DEC-20, VAX/VMS' SMG screen applications, etc etc.
>
>It would be less trouble for YOU to simply toss JR-Comm and get Handshake.

The terminal emulator named "VT100" (how imaginative...) is a good enough
subset of the VT100 terminal to run GNU Emacs and all other full-screen
software I've tried. VLT will also do it. However, I have heard that 
Handshake has superior emulation to the previous two. I use VLT a lot,
because I need Tek 4105 emulation.

ben@epmooch.UUCP