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From: joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens)
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Subject: Re: Communications Software
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 02:17:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 02:17:40 1986
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Summary: Vterm  80 (sliding) column vt52 emulator with xmodem

I have written a vt52 terminal emulator for the 8-bits that has xmodem,
but no kermit.
The 80-columns is achieved with a horizontal scroll.
It is called VTERM, and it is free.

Perhaps of more interest though is that it contains 2 handlers.  One called
V: which is a screen output device which does the vt52 emulating.
And one called R: which is used when you have a 1030.  This emulates a smart-
modem for the 1030.  It allows you to use the 1030 exactly like it was an
850 with a smartmodem hooked up to it.  Just use it instead of loading the
normal 850 handler boot file.  It also operates the same as the 850 handler.
You just open it up to talk to the modem, then close it when you want to do
serial I/O with the disk drive or whatever.  It is so much like the
850 handler/850/smartmodem combination in operation, that most other
terminal programs can use it unchanged.  It allows you to use the 1030 where
you wouldn't normally be able to.

Both handlers can be used indepentent of the Vterm program.

I am using this program now.  I have an 850 and a smartmodem on it now, but
when I wrote it I was using the 1030 setup.  (I have just graduated to 1200 is
all).
j.h.