Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!cartan!naparst From: naparst@cartan (Harold Naparst) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: commercial terminal emulator recommendation Message-ID: <13565@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 2-May-86 04:07:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.13565 Posted: Fri May 2 04:07:34 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 20:32:52 EDT References: <2149@uwmacc.UUCP> <600@kepler.UUCP> <1478@tekgvs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: naparst@cartan.UUCP (Harold Naparst) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 41 In article <1478@tekgvs.UUCP> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes: >In article <600@kepler.UUCP> mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes: >>demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) writes: >>> PROCOMM --> ...the emulations are pretty awful. >>> PIBTERM --> Pretty icky user interface... >>... >>I wonder if there's anything to be found in the professionally developed >>software that does any better? >> >I can recommend a terminal simulator called VTERM from an outfit called >Coefficient Systems Corp. I beta-tested their product and I'm continuing >to use it as my everyday terminal emulator to carry on System Administration >work on our department's VAX (BSD Unix 4.3). It has good VT100 emulation, a >VT52 mode (I've verified that the VT52 works but I haven't used it extensively). > >Built in to VTERM are Kermit, XMODEM and a couple other error-correcting >file transfer protocols (they provide source code for VMS, RSTS/E and >UNIX hosts). I use the Kermit extensively and it works great. I cannot >use the Xmodem because the comm link we use here at Tek (its the Sytek >broadband system) is not set up to allow Xmodem to work (^S makes the >system shut-up, so the 13th (?) Xmodem packet hangs the system). > >Last I knew VTERM was going to sell for $100 - $150. I never did hear >the final proce. It is not copy protected. (The original version I >received to test *was* and I excoriated them for doing this on the >first review sheet I sent in. They dropped the copy protection. I am presently beta testing the new version of vterm. It has a tektronix 4010 emulator and a local redisplay feature. The Kermit is very easy to use. It has EGA support, and can dump onto many printers and pen plotters. It has a scrollback buffer. It has programmable features that will let you log on to a computer, perform some operations and log off, all auto- matically. Provided they get all the bugs out it will be a great package. Harold Naparst Harold Naparst (415)-848-4560 UUCP {tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!cartan!naparst New style naparst@cartan.berkeley.edu ARPA | CSNET naparst%cartan@berkeley.ARPA snail 2715 Dwight Way, #7 Berkeley, CA 94704