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From: lvds@tfpbbs.uucp (Laurent Cas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: What to use for terminal emulation?
Message-ID: <91062726732@tfpbbs.uucp>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:33:32 GMT
References: <1980@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>
Organization: The Floating Point BBS, Paris.
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marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) writes:
> I use "mterm".  The source is posted on MWCBBS.  It uses /dev/console for its
> interface, and therefore supports "vt100" emulation.  It isn't great, but it
> is tiny.  I had to make a few patches to it to make it work (like /dev/com1 
> change to /dev/com1r).  
> 
> Has anyone else experience with "mterm" or "xcmalt" or yet other alternatives?

well, i work a lot on remote login on my site, and mterm doesn't work fine
on remote. the only possibility i found to replace the cu is to use Xcomm
which works very well on remote. note that mterm and xcomm both works very
fine in local.

> ("xcmalt" is also on MWCBBS, but I've not been able to get it working 
> although it compiles fine; haven't had time to read the manual which probably
> has the answers;-)

we do not have xcmalt, please be kind to post it here in uuencoded form.
just think to users that don't have any access to the very very far MWCbbs...
long distance calls are very expensive for us (i mean french users).

> Thanks,
> Mark Ellis

nothing, it was a pleasure ; this is my first attempt to write on the news
feed :-)