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From: arice1@tampabay.rr.com (Art Rice)
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a terminal emulation newsgroup
Message-ID: <3781b9a6.170455492@news-server.tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:11:32 GMT
Organization: RoadRunner - TampaBay
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Your message of this morning went to comp.terminals and
comp.protocols.kermit.misc.
Really, terminal emulation is a subset of terminals. Also a subset of
PCs, Visual C++, BC++, and so on. But they need to emulate a
"terminal" correctly or they won't do their assigned job. Questions
about functionality, protocols, and display should probably go to
comp.terminals. Winsock to whatever news-group
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.winsock maybe. Sometimes a trip
to comp.os.vms or comp.sys.tandem and so on is needed for vendor
specific escape codes and responses. A terminal emulator touches
several areas of programming and I have seen questions in all of the
above news-groups.
A single news-group sounds like a great Idea at first. But then I
think, all of the questions are in comp.terminal.emulators and all of
the answers are in comp.terminals and vendor specific news groups.
Answers are coming from other new-groups (usually vendor specific) and
they should be asked to cross-post here (for the benefit of other
readers and archiving.) Most answers can be found in comp.terminals
and most folks seem to be fairly happy here.
On 1 Jul 1999 15:58:16 GMT, jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey
Altman) wrote:
>In article <37808b30.158561399@news-server.tampabay.rr.com>,
>Art Rice <arice1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>: On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:47:01 GMT, "T.E.Dickey"
>: <dickey@shell.clark.net> wrote:
>:
>: >In comp.terminals Art Rice <arice1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>: >
>: >> I think that most of the answers people have been looking for,
>: >> the readers on comp.terminals have been able to answer.
>: >
>: >... and those that aren't answered in comp.terminals probably aren't being
>: > answered in other newsgroups.
>:
>: Also, since the emulator folks spend so much time here
>: reading, wouldn't it make sense for them to post here.
>: If they are trying to emulate a terminal, it makes perfect
>: sense for them to ask questions of the terminal newsgroup.
>:
>
>What newsgroups are the unanswered terminal emulation questions
>being posted to? Being one of the people that answers most of
>them I would really like to know.
>
>
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
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