Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!daemon From: kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: re VT52 emulator downloader Message-ID: <3063@rutgers.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 20:20:56 EDT Article-I.D.: rutgers.3063 Posted: Mon Aug 10 20:20:56 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Aug-87 00:45:34 EDT Sender: daemon@rutgers.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 From: Stephen Kinzler > That downloader was written *way* before the advent of Kermit and Xmobuf > programs for the C64. These packetized protocol downloaders have pretty > much replaced the old "capture" or "stream" downloading protocols, since > the former detect and correct errors due to line noise etc. during the > transfer. Consequently, I don't see much need these days for TERM.PLUS's > "stream" download protocol; it was just a convenience used during the > development of TERM.PLUS (the VT52 emulator) itself. C64 Kermit encompases > the *same* VT-52 terminal emulator (with a somewhat inferior 80 column font, > I fear). > Frank Prindle > Prindle@NADC.arpa Yes, I didn't intend the package to be a serious downloader. But it is very handy when using TERM.PLUS -- which I still do -- for the 80-col font (about the only usable one I've seen on a composite monitor) and the convenience. Also, I have no problem with line noise and much of my work is on Apollo DOMAIN/IX machines where a stable Kermit has only been a dream around here. Thanks, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | .,, >{~) ['} / Stephen Kinzler \ + < ": ~.$[~@{}== | | !% > %()}@! ' / kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu \ '}~>{ >;' &$ )<} | | %<@;"??{.,':} / {ihnp4,seismo,cbosgd}!iuvax!kinzler \ &"((&@=+}<&+;@) | | ` ]>)"} +{[) / Indiana Univ Dept of Computer Science \ ,@ }%[^? ?^&. | | @! %% ~!,! / Lindley Hall 101; Bloomington, IN 47405 USA \ %,: (>..%<*%$ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------