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From: ratazzie@lonex.radc.af.mil (Edward P. Ratazzi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Inadequate Kermit
Keywords: Kermit
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.130211.19956@lonex.radc.af.mil>
Date: 18 Apr 91 13:02:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.013538.24340@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <40308@fmsrl7.UUCP>
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In article <40308@fmsrl7.UUCP> wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr ) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.013538.24340@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, boutland@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Boutland) writes:
>>
>> Coherent's Kermit seems to have little idea of what sort of
>> terminal I am using.
>
>Kermit gives you a transparent connection - it doesn't do any emulation
>- so it doesn't care what type of terminal you're using.
>
>The type of terminal you should specifiy to any remote system is the
>type of terminal your console emulates. That's not determined by Kermit
>- that's built into the console driver. Which leads to the question you
>really wanted to ask: what type of terminal does the Coherent console
>driver emulate? Since I don't have Coherent, I don't know. But, since I
>am thinking about it, I'm just as interested as you in finding out.
>
It seems to be an ANSI emulation.

This leads to another question:  What (if any) terminal emulators are
available for Coherent?  Is there anything like a VT100 emulator which
would allow for the use of the numeric keypad?  How about graphics terminal
emulation (Tek40XX)?

One of the problems I'm having in becoming a user of Coherent exclusively
(i.e. not having to switch over to DOS for certain tasks) is my lack of a
good terminal emulator.  I made an attempt at getting pcomm (from
comp.unix.sources) running, but it seems that it's too large a program for
Coherent.

Anybody got any ideas?

TIA,

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