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From: windemut@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Andreas Windemuth)
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Subject: Re: Communicae & Tektronix 401x terminal emulation.
Keywords: communicae, terminal, stuart, vt100, terminal emulation
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.043124.13890@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 04:31:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.021537.12258@colorado.edu> perkins@spot.Colorado.EDU  
(PERKINS TYLER R) writes:
> Has anyone used Communicae, by Active Ingredients, Inc.?  Are you happy with
> it?  Bugs?  Neat features?  How does it compare with Terminal or Stuart for
> ordinary text?  Indeed, is it shipping?!
> 
> Are there any other such Tek 401x emulator applications out there?

I have had some opportunity to use communicae, and I thought
the text handling is much nicer than Stuart or Terminal. I especially
like its capability of using ANY font, and the several ways 
that are provided for correctly tabulating text when a 
proportional font is used. Back in the times when I was still
using a Terminal to read news, non-proportional fonts were
starting to hurt my eyes until I tried using communicae. 

It is a very nice program, although slightly
non-standard in the user interface. The extremely general 
way to define key functions also comes to mind.

I don't know about the Tek 401x emulation, never had to use it.

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		Andreas Windemuth

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