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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: VT100/VT52 Bashing (Was: Re: Vt100)
Keywords: Shareware
Message-ID: <8059@reed.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 20:37:46 GMT
References: <4469@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Hi Jim!  I was going to post a note, and I'm glad you are still around! :-)
Actually, I came here to read my news today (by "came here" I mean called up
the vax:-) and found 176 messages ready and waiting. . .So I've been out of
touch. . .

In article <4469@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> hayes@thor.ucsd.edu (James Hayes) writes:
> [info on how to "parse" vt100/vt52 commands. . .]
>
>Vt100 state 4 is the most difficult, but even in 6502 assembly language it is
>62 lines of code-- trivial.  (Sorry folks it really is; DCOM has
>done this since day one.  DCOM sits in a loop waiting for characters.
>When it gets one, it looks at the current parsing state and branches to

>the appropriate handler.)
I'll have to check that. . .

>[ If this is the wrong place to be complainin', sorry, but you guys were
>  driving me crazy. ] {me too!}
>
>DO NOT ASK ME TO MAIL YOU A COPY.  Find a friend on the ARPAnet.  Most
>clubs/user's groups have a copy, so check there.  Some BBS's have it also.

I have everything for the DOS 3.3 version.  Whilst I have the source, and
can manage bug fixes (if I have my thinking done right, Jim is devoting his
time to the ProDOS version, and I have agreed to more or less support the
DOS 3.3 version.  I will *not* sell the source.  That you must buy from Jim
directly, and I will try to make sure that Jim has the latest version I've
put out.), it it *not* my program (just covering my tush).  It belongs in
all it's glory to Jim Hayes.  I can give out the execables, and two or three
source files, including Jim's somewhat convoluted explanation of how to
write drivers for it.  DCOM is *the* software to use if you are a funtime
hacker, not into pirating etc.

I can somewhat reliable e-mail to ARPA, as well as BITNET, so send me a note
if you want it.  You'll get Jim's original package, plus one or two minor
fixes.  You will also get my Novation AppleCat drivers, with source.  No
guarantee on turnover time.  Probably on the neighborhood of two weeks.
>
>[ Will Sean Kamath perk up and tell the folks how to get the AppleCat modem
> driver for the folks needing it? ]

Perk up? And, like, where have you been? :-)

>Jim Hayes, University of California at San Diego.
>
>BITNET: hayes@ucsd.bitnet       ARPA: hayes@ucsd.ucsd.edu
>UUCP:   {pick one close to berkeley}!sdcsvax!hayes

Sean Kamath, nowhere but in the rain, it seems.

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