Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ProTERM (was:Re: GS as a IIe) Message-ID: <10993@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 13 Jan 91 07:20:59 GMT References: <9101121924.AA28414@apple.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 33 In article <9101121924.AA28414@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >On Fri, 11 Jan 91 07:02:41 GMT The Unknown User said: >> Could you please explain to me WHY vt100 emulation is so darn >>important?! >Well, I'm not the one you asked, but I'll explain why. Most (or a very large >number) of university systems are vt-100 thingies... they expect function Most are "vt100 thingies"??? But if they are using UNIX (at least BSD, and cshell, but I presume all UNIX systems do something similar), they ASK for a termtype... And there are MANY MANY termtypes supported... Many others that will function just as well as vt100 will.. Just like I'm using, tvi912c... (actually "Televideo" on the ProTERM side, but I tell it "tvi912c" on the UNIX side as that's a type of actual terminal I use a lot)... It works perfectly.. Are there people with UNIX account where it does NOT ask you what termtype you have when you log on and just ASSUME that you're using tvi912c?? (Even if it did, you could type "setenv TERM " and then do a "tset" to reset it... I just can't understand why vt100 is supposedly the be all and end all of terminals... It just AIN'T.. And since ProTERM's vt100 doesn't always work quite right (the 80th character problem sucks), just use a different termtype! I really WANT to be proved wrong in this case... But I don't think I will. -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. /