Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: VT100 Message-ID: <8803121505.ab17271@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 12 Mar 88 20:09:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 WILLIAMS MICHAEL SCOTT writes: >And about VT100, the reason that it has such a high demand is that it is >basically a standard; supported HIGHLY on DEC systems... VT100 also is widely supported by IBM mainframe protocol converters. Even the most widely used program for linking an IBM-PC (YTerm) with an IBM mainframe uses ANSI (essentially a VT100). Most of us using Apple II's to communicate with IBM mainframes use VT100 because that emulation supports more of the mainframe's editing features than alternatives (VT52, ADM3A, etc.). Mainframes (ESPECIALLY IBM mainframes) can't support XModem. That's what makes KERMIT so popular. I'm puzzled by communications programs that support terminal emulations but not Kermit (so far, I haven't seen a BBS that supports any teerminal more sophisticated than a linemode 33KSR ). What's the point? --------------------- Disclaimer: I like my opinions better than my employers anyway... (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut