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From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTerminal
Message-ID: <398@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 05:55:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 05:55:47 1985
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MacTerminal does have the problem that it likes to buzz the disk every few
seconds, but I haven't had it crash on me as long as I take care to close the
terminal document and quit from the program properly.  It also is the only
terminal program I've used out of:

    MacTerminal
    Beta Versaterm (the one posted to the net a LONG time ago;
                    I don't know about the current version)
    Red Ryder C.06 (also a beta test version; the latest version of RR)
    C-Kermit version 4C (really a Kermit with an attached terminal emulator)

that does VT100 emulation well enough that the screen doesn't get messed up
when running Unix (Gosling) Emacs.  Red Ryder C.06 seems to work in VT52
emulation mode, but VT52s are very dumb terminals (no delete line command!
at least that's what I surmise when Emacs rewrites the whole screen. . .)

The version I'm running is also somewhat hacked:  I changed the built-in
Monaco font to trade one dot of spacing between lines for more readable
lower-case letters, and put resources into my MacTerminal documents to make
the OPTION key act as a CTRL key.  I wish Apple had put the information on
keyboard remapping into the MacTerminal manual, but at least they posted it
to net.micro.mac once or twice.

What I'd really like to have is a terminal program that emulates a Concept
with the -LNZ modifications.  CLNZs have loadable dictionaries, among other
neat features, and our version of Gosling Emacs knows how to take advantage
of them.  It makes a 1200 baud terminal seem more like a 4800 baud terminal.
Oh well, one can always dream.

                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA