Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!happym!rwing!markt
From: markt@rwing.UUCP (Mark Tapper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Homepack & termcaps
Summary: try a different terminal
Message-ID: <365@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 11:35:24 GMT
References: <1886@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <3946@bsu-cs.UUCP> <5652@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Smurf's R US, Seattle WA
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In article <5652@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, hauck@limbo.uucp (Scott Hauck) writes:
> 
> 	I'm trying to use HOMETERM, part of HOMEPACK, to communicate with
> several Unix-based machines and failing mserably.  The problem is that while
> HOMETERM emulates vidtex (a program in most termcap files), it displays 38 
> columns instead of 40 and 20 lines instead of 22+.  This makes use of emacs or
> vi (or any other text editor for that matter) impossible.  I tried editting the
> termcap entry and, while I could set it correctly in my environment, emacs
> still insists on 40 columns, 22+lines, and vi just fails (it starts printing
> in the middle of the screen and really messes up cursor motion).  What I need

if you have a good monitor i would suggest that you try VT10SQ. alot of people
prefer KERMIT over it, but if you have a good monitor the display on VT10SQ
is the best, it gives you a really good vt100 emulator, it wont show inverse
video but thats all it wont do  for you. i've used it to play games on
a handful of different unix machines, it works on everything i've used it
on and works great with my xm-301. if you want a copy i might be able
to mail you a uuencoded copy of it. let me know.


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Mark Tapper    uw-beaver!tikal!toybox!rwing!markt
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