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From: elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: TERMINAL.EXE and Unix CURSES
Message-ID: <1991May12.215112.26512@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 May 91 21:51:12 GMT
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Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <45950006@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) writes:
>Does  anybody know exactly  what I need  to do  to  get Window 3.0 terminal
>emulator to be  able to talk to Unix  and  pay attention to Unix CURSES  so
>that I can use it to read an post notes?
>
>More detail:
>
>I would like to  be able to  use terminal.exe to  dial into a Unix box.   I
>managed to do this at one time but when I tried to read note I  got a bunch
>of escape sequences and it looked, in general,  pretty ugly.   I have a 286
>Classic Vectra.  I  configured it as a  Generic TTY.  I  am logging  into a
>Unix box at work.

Try using VT100 emulation.  As an alternative to TERMINAL.EXE, you
might try FTPing WinQVT from cica.cica.indiana.edu -- I just got the
latest version, 4.65, from the uploads directory (yeah, I know, but
I'm impatient.)  

TERMINAL.EXE DOES have VT100 emulation, but it has some bugs.
Configuring it as a generic TTY won't work, though, since that means
it doesn't understand escape codes.

There are a few other VT100 emulators for Windows, but I have been
using WinQVT for a while and it works for me.

Later,
Adam Elman
elmanad@leland.stanford.edu