Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Communication Programs (Unix Terminal emulators) Message-ID: <13377@ncoast.ORG> Date: 15 Feb 89 02:32:37 GMT References: <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu> <7562@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: usa Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 30 As quoted from <7562@netnews.upenn.edu> by silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman): +--------------- | 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. | | 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. +--------------- Tell that last to someone who uses windowing systems like SunView or the 3B1 with a small font.... Telix 3.11 has 43 (EGA) and 50 (NOT 60) (VGA) line modes available on the ALT-M menu. Since my computer has a Hercules display card (as of a week ago, to run Windows), I can't tell you how well they work. They are both 80 columns; I've seen a VGA clone do 132x60, but have yet to see a terminal program that uses it. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser