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From: delaney@wnre.aecl.CDN (Grant Delaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: VT-100
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Date: 9 Jan 88 22:00:00 GMT
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With all the talk about VT100 emulators and programs think of what you will be
doing.  If you are talking to a MAIN Frame at your university or elswhere
and using editors or it's operating system "think" do you need all the features
of one of the many communications programs.  I'm using KERMIT381 on my GS and
on //e's at work where others use Softerm regularly and find the keyboard lay
out for the keypad in kermit much more convenient.  One other thing on the 
GS Ted Medin has Kermit recognizing the GS keypad as if it were a VT100 so
you don't even use the OA keys on a GS.  I have yet to find a commercial
program that can do that.  Kermit may not have all the bells and Whistles but
few programs can handle the whole line II to IIgs and be so widly supported. 
Even on of the major hlod outs COMPUSERVE now supports Kermit file transfer.