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From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: VT220 Emulation
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.182145.27192@ns.uoregon.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:21:45 GMT
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>In article <3060@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tmyers@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tim Myers)
writes:
>>Our university is putting on line a new VAX and software that they
>>recommend VT 220 emulation for use.  I've heard them recommend
>>MacTerminal for comm software, but also understand that VersaTerm
>>will emulate a VT 220 terminal.
>>
>>I'd appreciate any recommendation on these two programs, or others
>>you are familiar with.  Thanks.
>>

We have a vaxcluster running VMS. I have tried the most recent version of
MacTerminal (toolbox based) and didn't like it at all. I haven't tried VT220
emulation in Versaterm, but have used 4.0 (not toolbox version) with VT100
emulation and also White Knight. I prefer Versaterm and would recommend it.

If you want something free and can live with VT100/102 emulation only, then
MacKermit is a possibility. It's functionality is severely limited (e.g., you
can't copy to clipboard; no scripting or even autodial from a list of phone
numbers), but it at least allows you to define key macros so you could define
appropriate keys for special keys in the vax environment. I doubt it will
handle special screen text attributes, however, if the vax software exploits
that. It is available on sumex-aim and lots of other places.