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From: rhes@igloo.UUCP (Richard H. E. Smith II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: desperately seeking vt100 emulator
Message-ID: <349@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 11:14:52 GMT
References: <1369@lll-lcc.aRpA> <11250012@hpldola.HP.COM> <722@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <709@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhes@igloo.UUCP (Richard H. E. Smith II)
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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Keywords: VT100 emulator CROSSTALK


>In article <722@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) writes:
>>Actually, I'm not that desperate.  What I do want however is a vt100
>>emulator for the PC that uses the keyboard to send out the same escape
>>sequences that a vt100 keyboard does in application mode.  I have seen
>>four or five that claim to be vt100 emulators and while some do a
>>remarkable job of RESPONDING to the right escape sequences, not one
>>use s the keyboard to produce them.  
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The only terminal program that I've ever noticed that does the VT100 keypad
right is good old CROSSTALK.  The only unfortunateness is that the arrow
keys are still shifted (altho you could program F5-f8 with them) and F1-F4
are not convenient to the kaypad area so you still couldn't quite touchtype
and make EDT work...

One other problem was that the backspace key was emulated but DEL was not,
making things more difficult for DEC o/s users.  It's possible that this has
been fixed in a later version, tho, since my last need for that sort of thing
was several years ago.  I'll bet that some of the crosstalk clones cloned
the feature, too.

It's too bad that these other implementors (esp. Procomm, which is otherwise
pretty nice) don't seem to understand what VT100's are REALLY used for.

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Dick Smith       Retired DECie
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