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From: west@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Steve Westfall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: ANSI.SYS & emulation
Message-ID: <177@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 18:13:20 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.177
Posted: Fri Feb  1 18:13:20 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 12:44:06 EST
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David Geller (geller@rlgvax.UUCP) writes:

>I believe that the IBM ANSI driver provides the same terminal character-
>istics and capabilities as a DEC VT-52. Please check the DOS manual to
>make sure - mine isn't handy.

The IBM ANSI.SYS driver implements some of the escape sequences of
the Ansi 3.64 standard, which are used in the DEC vt-100, not the
vt-52.

>You might consider purchasing
>such terminal programs as CROSSTALK or InterConnect for they both provide
>VT-100 emulation. I have PC-TALK - I even contributed to the author -
>I don't use it though because it is only good for dial-up and its slow.

Kermit for the IBM PC is cheap, has excellent file transfer ability,
and it does h19/vt52 emulation.  AND, if you turn off its h19/vt52
emulation, it will use the ANSI.SYS driver if you loaded it in your
config.sys file; therefore it will provide vt100 emulation (to the
extent that ansi.sys does that).

Also, one other advantage of Kermit over Pc-Talk is that it will
work at baud rates up to 9600.

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Steve Westfall			     uucp:  ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!west
Staff Analyst			   bitnet:  staff.westfall%chip@UChicago.bitnet
U. of Chicago Computation Center