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From: depeche@cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit)
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Subject: Re: Term program for MINT
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.164815.3151@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:48:15 GMT
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In article <25479@netcom.COM> rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler) writes:
>In article <1991Feb24.040959.23176@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Patrick B. Haggood) writes:
>>Anybody know if there's a TOS program, commercial or pc, that does 
>>VT52 or VT100?

The terminal program I normally use is ST-TERM, which should be available
on atari.archive.umich.edu.
It is a TOS program, which supports vt100 as well as zmodem and numerous
other transfer protocols, and has a procomm-like dialer.

One problem with it though is that it grabs all the available memory it can
for itself, so if you have a 2mb machine, run mint, go into bgacc, run
stterm, and then go back into gem or whatever, you won't have any memory to
run other stuff, because it is all being used by your other process. NOte
that STTERM doesn't require this memory - it is only used for the capture
buffer. If you have less memory, the capture buffer will be smaller.

When I asked the guy who wrote mint what I should do, he said that i should
set an environment variable in INIT.PRG to limit the amount of memory it
can grab, run STTERM from INIT, and then I when I exit I can do other
neato stuff too.

I can't remember how to do it now though - I should download the more recent
version of MINT anyway, and finally read the entire manual before I bother
the guy again, as I am sure he has much better things to do than answer
the same question twice!

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|S. Alan Ezust		: McGill University School of Computer Science      |
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