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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
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Subject: Re: Communication Programs (Unix Terminal emulators)
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Date: 2 Feb 89 00:18:02 GMT
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In article <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu> jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan) writes:
>I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably
>public domain, for the Unix system.  I have an IBM compatible with a VGA
>display board.  I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25
>lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package.

In general, the "Unix System" has a file called termcap or something like that
which contains many terminal definitions for all sorts of different bits of
hardware.  As long as a given terminal type, say VT-100 or Heath-19, is in
your TERMCAP file you could use any terminal emulator package which claims
to emulate the above.  Depending on the shell you use in Unix, there are
different ways of telling the system what type of terminal you are using.
Most commercial Comm programs such as Procomm or Qmodem have many different
types of emulation built in, but as far as I know these do not take advantage
of over 25 lines on any given screen, mainly because most full-screen
terminals only have 25 lines, thus more would be unnecessary and confusing
for full-screen UNIX programs such as EMACS.



Andy Silverman
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