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From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Terminal emulators for cu (me too)
Message-ID: <212@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Feb 88 14:38:58 GMT
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Reply-To: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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>The pproblem that I am facing is that the computer that I am calling is a DEC
>machine that is running some strange operating system that I have NO ideas
>on how to get around. The operators up there assured me that they cannot change
>the modem ports just for little ole me and that the terminal interfacing roblem
>was mine to deal with... Oh well...
>
>Any more ideas?

I once had to connect to a DEC machine running VMS that seemed fixated
on vt100 terminals.  I was stuck on a tvi920 (or somesuch).  I found a
program called vtem, I think, which made whatever terminal you were on
emulate a vt100 by interpreting all output and converting it using
termcap/curses.  It spawned a shell internally.  I then used to run it
then call cu.  Seemed to work ok.

I can't find my sources for vtem anymore.  But I dare say a request on
the net..

You'll then have all the fun of making it emulate the terminal you
want :-).

	Lee.

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