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From: devilbis@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Vilbiss Warren C De)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some questions...
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Date: 8 Mar 88 18:27:47 GMT
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In article <2647@crash.cts.com> lgreen@pnet01.cts.com (Lawrence Greenwald) writes:
>Some questions:
>
>...
>
>3) Can anyone give suggestions on a GOOD terminal program...one that will
>   support all of the following:
>          -- VT100 emulation
>          -- Interlace mode
>          -- Mucho download protocols
>          -- Resetable screen colors
>   I'm kind of tired of switching back and forth between COMM 1.34 and 
>   VT100 v2.8 (which I only use on one service, PORTAL).
>
>   All help is appreciated.
>
>                                                    Larry Greenwald
Well, I'm pretty happy with HandShake version 1.60b.  As far as I know, it's
the ONLY Share-Ware VT100 emulator which handles just about ALL of a VT100's 
functions, including VT52 mode, double high/double wide text, 132 columns, etc.
It DOES support interlace mode, in a couple of different ways, all of which are
selectable and changeable after the program has been started; a half-height
interlace screen (24 lines), so you can see your terminal screen while you are
doing CLI or other stuff, a 48-line interlaced mode (works nice with EVE on
the VAX, letting you do on-screen editing with a 48-line view of your file!),
and a "setlace" mode, which just turns on the interlace mode to get rid of the
gaps between the character scan rows & make your screen jiggle :-).  It doesn't
have resettable screen colors per se, but it *does* copy your current workbench
colors when it creates its screen (660 pixels wide, to allow true 132 col's).
Also, it supports Xmodem, Xmodem/CRC, Ymodem, Ymodem Batch, and 3 variations on
Kermit (7 bit, 8 bit, and I forget the 3rd one...)  Alas, no WXmodem or ZModem,
at least not yet.  You should be able to find a copy of it around on your 
garden variety local BBS (or, come to think of it, it may have been posted in
comp.binaries.amiga recently).  Anyhow, the author has done a superb job with
his upgrades so far, but I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't sent in my share-
ware contribution yet on THAT program (but I will soon!  Promise!!!).
  - Mike Shawaluk
  (Thanks, Warren, for letting me post this.)