Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!cbmvax!bpa!burdvax!sdcrdcf!usc-oberon!bacall!papa From: papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Picking a terminal emulator Message-ID: <2133@bacall.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 02:43:04 EDT Article-I.D.: bacall.2133 Posted: Thu Jul 17 02:43:04 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 01:15:25 EDT References: <232@neoucom.UUCP> Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 43 > ////// > In response to the question about picking a terminal > emulator, I've been using the terminal program on the Digital > Creations "Gizmoz" disk. > > The Gizmoz terminal seems to be a very clean > implementation. Most of the TVI 900 series termials are supported, > vt100, ansi, adm3a, etc. as well. They seem to have done their > homework, as the vt100 works with unix/vi o.k. > We have currently in beta test version 1.1 of A-Talk that provides emulations for VT100, VT52, Heath H19, ANSI, TTY, Televideo, and IBM3101 terminals. Version 1.1 is scheduled for release around mid-August. Together with the new emulations, Xmodem-CRC and Compuserve-B will be supported (Xmodem Christensen and Kermit are supported in version 1.0). > You've got to be careful. A lot of terminal programs will > indeed generate the appropriate escape sequences, yet will not work > with vi because of slowness. In particular, vi senses time delay > to tell if a human types -a or if an arrow key generated the > same code sequence. I'm sure you can see that a slow emulator > could cause massive consternation! We have found that vi and emacs are good tests for emulators. Most terminal programs will work fine, except when "fancy" features like scrolling are used. Using "scroll-one-line-up" is an easy way to break Online! VT100 terminal emulator, for example. Vi uses "scrolling" when pressing the down arrow on the 24th line, which also will break a lot of emulators. We are looking for a few more folks that would like to beta test our version. We are on a tight schedule, so if you are interested please contact me through electronic mail. Note that we have access to UNIX 4.2 and System V, and have tested the emulators with them already (using vi and emacs). Marco Papa Felsina Software 3175 South Hoover Street, #275 Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213)747-8498 P.S.: Since Commodore advertised on the net about "their" VT100 emulator, and nobody complained, it seems fair that everybody else should be able to do so.