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From: furnish@zig.inria.fr (Geoffrey Furnish)
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Subject: Re: FULL VT100 emulation software -- Where?
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:28:43 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.113757.20666@deadzone.uucp>, meyer@deadzone.uucp (Doron Meyer) writes:
> Hi.  I am looking for a package that fully supports VT100 emulation.  All of thecommunications software I have seen for the PC doesn't fully support it, which  becomes readily apparant when I use program that depend on a full VT100
> emulation, like most editors.
> 
> I would prefer something shareware or PD that I could ftp, but if there is
> nothing available as shareware or PD, I'd appreciate reccommendations of
> commercial software.
> 
> Thank you.
> Doron Meyer

I may have just what you want.  I presume you know about Kermit 3.x.
This package has excellent vt series support, with the annoying problem
that the PF1/GOLD key is not correctly emulated, since Num Lock stays
Num Lock.  This of course fouls up most editors which use the vt100 
keypad, as you point out.

Well, on Simtel 20 in their Kermit area I have a program called nm100,
which fixes this exasperation by allowing you to use the Num Lock as the
PF1/GOLD key.  

Please note this program is shareware.  If you like it, (and use it) 
there is a small suggested contribution.

Cheers,

Geoff Furnish
furnish@solar.ph.utexas.edu