Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: C=128 VT100 emulator Message-ID: <1991Jan22.190102.29885@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 22 Jan 91 19:01:02 GMT References: <1991Jan20.084956.7434@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Jan21.161536.23959@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <55400@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 43 In article <55400@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> hinkle@acsu.buffalo.edu (steven j hinkle) writes: >In article <1991Jan21.161536.23959@evax.arl.utexas.edu> cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) writes: >> >>The best VT100 emulation comes from a program by Fred Bowen called >>VT100/128 v2.1. >>It is the best there is, IMO, because it transforms the 128 keypad into >>a real keypad just like a real VT100, so using EDT, et al, is a breeze. > > I disagree with this. I am not going to promote my favorite >but I don't think vt100/128 is a very good program. I got it when >I got my modem and it didn't work very well. Aha! If you got it with your modem, you are probably NOT using version 2.1, but the original program by Joe O'Hara, which was, alas, not a very good program at all. Version 2.1 improves tremendously on the program, and is basically, in Fred Bowen's words, "a rewrite of several parts of the program." >>The only problem I've had is that I can't get the Xmodem to work >>properly. I haven't needed it yet, though. > > this is a big problem with this program. Xmodem never works. It >will act like it is working but two hours later you still don't have >anything. This may be due to version number differences, again. However, I never use Xmodem, because I am always calling over a 7E1 line, which makes Xmodem useless. > I never saw a pacth to allow 2400 baud with this. I could do 1200 >but then I am under using my modem. I typed in the patch from the issue of Transactor that it appeared in. I believe what I will do is ARC this stuff together and post the latest version of VT100/128 at the Milton site, and then let you decide again. Can you tell that I hate to see one of my favorite programs trashed? :) -- begin 644 .signature G5&AI