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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation
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Date: 1 Jan 91 08:21:30 GMT
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G'day,

Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG ) writes:

* jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) writes:
* [...]
*>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.
* <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG* <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>

I agree with Kent regarding the cruddy 132 column font rendition on the usual
monitors that most Amiga owners have (such as myself).  {But then again there
are bad 132 col fonts for emulators and then there are better, VT100-132 is a
version of VT100 with a better/readable font than Handshake IMHO.}

However I can attest anecdotally that an as an everyday VAX user {please, I'm
aware of that status :-)} I often want to use 132 col mode.  Moreover, I have
a friend that I have loaned my Amiga 1000 to who needs it as a cheap terminal
that now uses Handshake exclusively for this feature.

I don't have JR-Comm but its not having a 132 col mode is a large minus, from
my own and my friends perspective {if he were here to be asked of course :-),
as he's not I offer his proxy :-)} ... and I can say I'd like to use JR-Comm
because I've heard good things about it's interface etc.

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.