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From: dew@esl.UUCP (Douglas Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST terminal emulation (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:37:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 11:37:21 1987
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In article <13222@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw) writes:

>2) What if I need pretty faithful vt100 emulation?  Doesn't kermit,
>   for example, (I assume there is a kermit for STs) do a reasonable job?

VT100 emulation has nothing to do with kermit.  KERMIT is a terminal
protocol for sending and receiving files and emulation of a virtual
terminal through a computer using another terminal.  Software packages
using the KERMIT protocol on a system such as an ST must also emulate
a terminal of some sort (VT52 or VT100 or Tektronix 4010 or etc.) but
is not really part of what is called KERMIT.  On larger systems such
as VAXes running either VMS or UNIX depend on the operating system and
the terminal the user is using to do screen addressing on the terminal.
Otherwise, KERMIT doesn't care about the details of the terminal.

In brief, don't just think of kermit as doing the vt100 emulation.  It
is the program running kermit and terminal emulator that matters.  I
use Intercomm and it seems to work fine.

dew@esl.ESL.COM