Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wp3b01!wjt
From: wjt@wp3b01.UUCP (Bill Taggart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: VT100 Program for the 128
Message-ID: <491@wp3b01.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 23:02:13 GMT
References: <363@ga.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: wjt@wp3b01.UUCP (Bill Taggart)
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In article <363@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> jonkatz@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
>For the past months I have been reading about people that can't find
>a good VT100 program for their 128. .  Well, since last summer I have
>been using the VT100 program that came with the 1670 modem and have
>had very little problems with it.
>
>I don't know if people just don't know about it or what, but it
>really is a great program.

I guess it really comes down to what you want to use it for.
I was the first one that started complaining about the vt100
emulator that came with the 1670 back in late 1985 in this
newsgroup.  microVT also suffers from the same problem -->
they cannot be used with a screen-oriented editor like 'vi'
without trashing the screen constantly.  At the time I started
communicating with Jeff Porter at CBM -- but no improvements
(fixes) were ever made (too my knowledge).  Over the past
several years several people have provided their own
termcap/terminfo files that supposedly work with 'vi' -- I
have tested them all without success.

I still run MEX in the C128 CP/M mode with a slightly modified
adm31 terminfo file.  I recently started playing around with
KERMIT for the C64 (runs with 80 columns) -- this has a VT100
emulator that appears quite good.  I am waiting to test out
the latest version -- I may end up switching to that.  I have
also heard that Bob's Proterm has a good VT100 emulator, but I
don't feel like paying that kind of money for a terminal
program.

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	Bill Taggart
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