Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: NeWS terminal emulators
Message-ID: <3411@phri.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 13:21:05 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	I'm sort of new to NeWS, so maybe I'm just doing something wrong,
but it looks to me that psterm is pretty much a disaster.  Aside from the
fact that it's slow as hell, most of the terminal emulations don't seem to
work.  The h19 works the best, but still has some bugs (ocassionally it
jumps into underline mode and often leaves garbage characters on the
screen).  All the other terminal types (vt100, sun, etc) seem not to work at
all when I try using (terminfo-based) CCA emacs.  The "scrolling prototype"
(nterm?)  works better as far as getting the right stuff in the right place
on the screen goes, but it's even slower than psterm; I can work about as
fast on my 2400-baud dial-up!

	So, what should I do about a NeWS terminal emulator?  Is there some
other termcap and/or terminfo entry which will make psterm work right with
more than 24 lines?  Is there some hope that nterm will be faster in the
next release (and I mean at least twice as fast, in order to make it
reasonably useful)?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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