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From: boutland@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Boutland)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Inadequate Kermit
Keywords: Kermit
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.013538.24340@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 16 Apr 91 01:35:38 GMT
Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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  I recently got a copy of Coherent and so far am quite
satisfied with its performance and features, except for
the Kermit that comes with it. Kermit is fine for file
transfers but little else. I do a lot of work on a
Pyramid computer running UNIX System V. The system also
supports ucb, csh and ksh environments. Coherent's Kermit
seems to have little idea of what sort of terminal I am using.
I've managed to get somewhere by specifying my vt100 terminal
as being a 4410 but this is still inadequate both for running
vi and emacs, so much so that I'm tending to use MINIX rather
than Coherent. The MINIX has a copy of term which seems to do
satisfactory terminal emulation, or whatever you call it (I'm
not well up with this sort of stuff). Can anyone advise me
on this problem ?

PS. The Coherent version is 3.1.0