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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help needed with a problem in using Procomm for terminal emulation
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Date: 6 Mar 90 22:16:09 GMT
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In article <1342@cascade.Stanford.EDU> faheem@cascade.ARPA (Faheem Akram) writes:
>I have a PC-XT connected to a main frame through a RS232 connection.  I
>am using the PC as a terminal by running Procomm on it in the terminal
>emulation mode, emulating the H-19 terminal.  Everything seems to work
>fine, except when I try to use the editor EMACS.  Once I start editing 
>a file under Emacs, the problem I face is that if I want to go back to
>delete a particular character on a particular line, I cannot see the 
>effect of the Cntrl-D key.  The Cntrl-D key is supposed to delete a character.

Try using the VT102 emulation instead of H-19. This is what I use with my
PC with Procomm, and I haven't had any problems with it.

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