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From: kolding@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Koldinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: VT100
Message-ID: <1479@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 13 Mar 88 21:19:49 GMT
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Reply-To: kolding@ji.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Eric Koldinger)
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In article <8803121505.ab17271@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET writes:
>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 <teletype machine>).  What's the point?

Well, a lot of us use Unix systems which can support XModem, and we need
some sort of terminal emulation so we can use full screen editors.  In fact,
the main use of my communications is to connect me to Unix as a terminal,
and file transfer is only a secondary feature.

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