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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VT100 screens to Ventura
Summary: What about using a Macintosh instead of an Amiga?
Message-ID: <2116@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 19:47:19 GMT
References: <8802121647.AA27207@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8802121647.AA27207@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA writes:
> 
> David Brown asked for a means of capturing VT100 screens for later
> input to Ventura Publisher.
> 	Doing this with a PC could be hard... however, if you want to do
> it, and do it cleanly, get hold of an Amiga. The shareware HANDSHAKE program
> does an excellent job of VT102 emulation...

The same thing can be done on a Macintosh.  There are some excellent programs
out to let you capture any screen from a VT100 terminal, even graphics from
a VT240 terminal.  Then, why not get a desktop publishing package for the
Mac, something like PageMaker 3.0 maybe, and see what a REAL presentation 
manager looks like...

> 	Once you HAVE the Amiga, you may want to trash your PC, of course...

I thought the same thing about a Macintosh.

> 	As for software to capture the output, SHOWX or the screen dumper
> on AmigaDos 1.2's EXTRAS disk can be used, or the commercial GRABBiT

On the Mac, you can press a couple of keys to save a snapshot of a screen;
no special software is needed.

> 	Glenn Everhart
> Everhart%Arisia.decnet@crd.ge.com

Michael Niehaus
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