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From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VT-100 device driver
Message-ID: <1365@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 20:43:49 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1365
Posted: Sat Apr 11 20:43:49 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 00:37:47 EST
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <58200032@gorgo.UUCP>, ddrex@gorgo.UUCP writes:
 
> So far as "anonymous ftp", it would be nice to get lots of things, if only
> I had arpa access :~-(

Info on how to access SIMTEL20 archives for non-arpa sites (via e-mail)
gets published about once a month. It's obviously not as neat as ftp,
which lets you muck around to your heart's content, but at least you're
not 100% out in the cold. I'm sorry to tantalize when I don't have the
straight poop ready to hand, but some kind soul will promptly send you
the right info if you ask.
 
> My comments about the emulator were to some degree facetious: nobody will
> ever convince me that an XT's double row of function keys looks, or behaves,
> anything like a VT-100/200/220 keypad. Try running VMS EDIT remotely from
> an XT sometime. It aint fun! 

Without commenting on the prospect of putting the VT100 keypad on the
numeric keypad of a PC (that *has* to be possible, though?), I've just
recently started to use VMS, and not being biased by prior experience,
I'm having no difficulty at all with doing all the EDT functions from
the PC function keypad. We use ProComm for remote access to VMS, and
while most people agree that its implementation of the keypad in VT100
emulation mode is far from ideal, we used a shareware program called
NewKey to redefine the function keys to something we think is not that
bad. I have to say we think the latest version of NewKey we know about
(2.4) seems to have some problems [we're trying to find out more about
that]. Assuming we can get that all fixed up, we're going to try out
this arrangement on our staff and see what they think of it, as we're
all moving to the VMS machine and about half of us use PCs rather than
terminals.

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