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From: jhs@disunix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: VT100 Emulator
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Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 13:55:08 EDT
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There is a VT-100 emulator called VT10SQ which seems to work pretty well.
I received a copy of it a couple of months ago and have found it to make my
800XL into an acceptable "poor man's" terminal for accessing the unix machines
at work.

VT10SQ is just a dumb (full screen editing) terminal (I guess "page mode" is
the correct term?).  No XMODEM or other file transfer capabilities so far as I
am aware.

When I need to do file transfers I use the new OmniTerm program which CDY
Consulting supplies free with their OmniView O/S replacement chip.  This
combination gives 80-column display with a much nicer font than VT10SQ
offers, and provides XMODEM and also a "vanilla" file transfer capability
that can be used with any host (but doesn't do any error checking).  The
80-column capability is embedded in the O/S ROM so you can use it in a lot of
other applications like Word Processing (with CDY's own OmniWriter word
processor or with Letter Perfect), or with your own programs even in BASIC.
It would be handy to be able to combine VT100 emulation with file transfers
but so far I have not identified a way to do this except write your own.
If anyone knows of such a package, please comment.

CDY can be reached at (214) 235-2146 or by mail at (better check this)
421 Hanbee, Richardson TX (zip?).  The owner, David Young, usually reads this
news group or can be reached (for innocent things like asking his mailing
address) at his ARPANET address: dyoung@usc-isid.arpa.

Hope this is of help.

-John Sangster
jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa