Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation Message-ID: <1991Jan1.053325.937@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 1 Jan 91 05:33:25 GMT References: <600@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <37397@cup.portal.com> <647@faatcrl.UUCP> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 21 jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) writes: >thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >> 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. >Hmm... I installed Vttest on our system here so that Jack could fix his >Vt-100 emulation bugs. He did so a while ago, and it passes the test, >except for 132 column mode which he says is "not worth implementing" (or >something to that effect). It really isn't. First, the Amiga, barely capable of showing 132 columns in doggy type with overscan, shouldn't be trying to do that anyway. Second, the 132 column capability in the VT100 was a hardware option, so no program not designed around it should ever require it. Kent, the man from xanth.