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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <654@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 00:31:05 GMT
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thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>First, I'm happy to hear that Dave P. Schaumann solved his difficulty with
>JR-Comm V1.01, and am pleasantly surprised to hear that Jack Radigan enhanced
>the "base" D.J.James' COMM program so well.

  I really wish you'd do some investgating before you post such erroneous
information.  JR-Comm is completely original, it is not "based" on any
previous work.  I wouldn't be comfortable asking for a registration fee if
it was.

>As far as "VT100" compatibilty goes, if a program doesn't 100% pass the Per
>Lindberg "vttest" VT100 validation suite, then a program is NOT compatible.

  Have *you* tested JR-Comm with it for yourself?  I would appreciate either
the source to this program or your results so that I can fix any remaining
problems that may (or may not) exist.

>At my office we have REAL DEC VT100, VT220 and VT240 terminals, and also
>Datamedia DT80 and Falco TS1 clones.  And we have IBM-PCs, Macs and Amigas.
>Nothing on the Macs or IBM-PCs will properly emulate a VT100; NOTHING.
>Handshake on the Amiga does, and so apparently does A-Talk-III and now,
>presumably, JR-Comm.  But I'll reserve judgment on those last two until I
>*see* them do 80 and 132 columns along with double wide and double-wide/-high
>characters and pass every part of the Per Lindberg validation suite.

  Double width/height is there.  132 isn't, by me directly, but if you add
the proper fonts it would work.  I can't see the use for 132 columns with the
Amiga since you need 660 pixels at a minimum for 5 pixel wide characters with
only 4 allowed for the character itself since one is required for spacing.

  -jack-