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From: Clarence Dold <dold@rahul.net>
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Subject: Re: Terminal emulation incorrect?
Date: 21 Apr 1995 16:33:47 GMT
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: It sounds to me like you have a mismatch between the VMS and Kermit
: terminal types. I can assure you that the VT102 emulation works (dare I
: say) perfectly.
Please Frank (and Joe D.) feel free to use the word "perfectly".
Or maybe not. MSKermit does a better job of VT100 than a DEC VT100
terminal. How is that possible? By definition of the official Digital
Equipment Corp VT100 evaluation.
While testing various terminals for OEM relabelling, we found that none of
them would pass all phases of the DEC VT100 testing. But we also found that
the DEC VT100 would fail, if the test was being driven by a fast computer.
MSKermit failed the "large character" mode, as noted in the docs, but passed
all of the other modes.
We finally OEM'd a terminal that was chosen by one of our large customers,
and was not the one favored by internal test... Oh well.
The MSKermit VT100 has proven to be correct in every case of serial
corruption that I encountered while debugging problems with serial handlers
and various terminals. If a problem was reported, MSKermit was always my
standard for investigation.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.