Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Best communication program for the PC Keywords: Telix vt100 ansi emulation Message-ID: <7481@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 6 Jan 90 22:18:07 GMT References: <1246@awdprime.UUCP> <1990Jan5.005143.10149@druid.uucp> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 24 In article <1990Jan5.005143.10149@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: }My father uses Telix (I'm not sure which version) and he can't use any }curses programs when he dials into my UNIX system. Seems the ANSI-BBS }and VT-100 emulations aren't complete enough to handle all the screen }access. The same seems to be true of an older version of Qmodem that You might want to try the new version of RBcomm that I released today. The only VT100 commands I know about which it doesn't do are the answerback string and double-wide/double-high characters (it does support inverting the screen, 132 column mode, the alternate character sets, switching to/from VT52 emulation, scrolling regions, line wrap toggling, terminal responses, and more). Double-size character commands are recognized and ignored. Available via anonymous FTP from CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.173] in directory /afs/cs/user/ralf/pub (you must change directly to it) as file rbcomm30.zip, 73135 bytes. It will be on SIMTEL20 within a day or so (the earlier RBCOMM28.ARC is in PD2:). -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? | _How_to_Prove_It_ by Dana Angluin 15. by accumulated evidence: What's that?| Long and diligent search has not revealed a counterexample.