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From: xspolsky%yale-zoo-suned@CS.YALE.EDU (Avram Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: high-class terminal emulator needed.
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Date: 10 Sep 88 20:01:35 GMT
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Reply-To: spolsky@yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <8225@srcsip.UUCP> schrag@srcsip.UUCP (Bob Schrag) writes:
| Does anyone have a terminal emulator with the following characteristics
| that I can buy or beg?
| 
| I have an XT clone (at home with a modem), and I need a terminal emulator
| that will allow me to use the Alt-key as the terminal-meta-key in Gnu-Emacs
| (running on the Unix systems at work).  This means that the emulator must
| be capable of running at 8-bits, no-parity, and actually transmit the
| 8th-bit high (I think) when the Alt-key is held down for any character.
| The Wyse-85 terminal in my office will do this in VT100-mode, using the
| "Compose"-key.  

MSKermit 2.31 will do everything you want.
-- it works at up to 19,200 if your PC (ie the UART) is fast enough
-- It can work at 8-bits, but the best way to get ALT-keys to send
meta sequences is to redefine the keyboard so ALT-A sends Esc-A, etc
etc. This is pretty easy in Kermit (I've done it) with a script.

Kermit is available by anonymous ftp from cu20b@columbia.edu and
probably from j.cc.purdue.edu as well.

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