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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Term program for Mint that works for MGR
Keywords: MGR Mint TOS term telecomm
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.120026.6843@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 12:00:26 GMT
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In article <1991Feb24.224138.3522@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Patrick B. Haggood) writes:
>I posted a query a day ago requsting a commercial or pd program that works
>with Mint.  I neglected to mention that it should also work with MGR.  Two 
>folks recommended term4.lzh, st-term, and uniterm.  I can get them to work
>under GEM and TOS, but MGR hates 'em (even if I run vt52.prg before envoking
>them).  Uniterm I didn't expect to work, because it's GEMish, but the other
>two are vt52/vt100 programs.  Both just lock up (st-term also produced two
>bombs).  I know MGR/Mint can work with the serial port, because I use 
>KA9Q to move files while editing/compiling OCCAM programs (yes, OCCAM) and 
>using Maple.
>
>If it helps, I'm using a 1040 with 2.5 megs of RAM and a monchrome monitor.

Ah, you should have mentioned MGR sooner. I wrote a small dumb-terminal program
for MiNT; it works fine with the vt52.prg supplied with MGR. I called it "tip"
and modeled it after the BSD tip program. I posted it a while back with my rmgr
sources, it oughta be on atari.archive.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan

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