Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ProTERM (was:Re: GS as a IIe) Message-ID: <9101141412.AA15551@apple.com> Date: 13 Jan 91 18:41:18 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 On Sun, 13 Jan 91 07:20:59 GMT The Unknown User said: >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"??? Sorry. I couldn't think of anything more technical :) > 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... But that's just it.... not all systems are UNIX! Alot of people on here think they are, but they most certainly are not. I'm using an IBM 3270 mainframe. I know absolutely nothing about UNIX. I don't even know if it can work on an IBM 3270, but even if it can, that's not what our system is. I'm using CMS right now. We also have MUSIC/SP (crap) and a vax (when it's working). The thing is, vt-100 the THE protocal that most systems have in common and that's why the VT-100 should work on ProTERM (or any other term program, for that matter). > 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. / ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com