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- From: satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (Kirtikumar G. Satam)
- Subject: Terminal Emulation on PC
- Message-ID: <Bzr5t9.2o4@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
- Keywords: VT100 emulation, IBM/PC and ANSI.SYS, PD software
- Sender: news@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (News account)
- Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:22:20 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- Hello there!!
- I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup, nor I'm an expert in
- DOS and PC. Plese respond by e-mail.
- Also, please be as descriptive as possible.
-
- There is a need for development of VT100 terminal emulator for IBM PC
- compatibles. I know there are quite a bit of such packages available in
- the Public Domain and one can get it free.
-
- Well, the problem is bit different. The need to support native language
- text (not english) and absolutely no file transfer capabilities needed.
- Just understanding VT100 escape sequences are needed.
-
- I tried looking into source code of various PD software for
- understanding how it is done. But, only kermit source is available and
- it is in ASM!! QVT bin was available, but no source ( I guess it is
- based on C code). Does anybody knows a PD software doing termimal
- emulation and having source available for either C or PASCAL, or does
- anybody done similar thing and want to share it?
-
- Another way was to use ANSI.SYS driver and write communication part.
- Well, the aim is to further this idea of terminal emulation without
- using DOS (but using PC hardware) and putting the code in ROM so that PC
- boots upto VT100 terminal (supporting native langauge, ofcourse). In
- such cases, ANSI.SYS will be useless, I guess.
-
- Can any kind soul help me in this. Is there any serious flaw in my
- ideas. Can share some terminal emulation code with me, I won't have to
- worry about managing that part. Is there any Public domain source (C or
- PASCAL) avaiable?
-
- Please do send me e-mails with all your ideas and information. It will
- be of great help.
-
- Thanks.
-
- - satam.
- satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in
- satam@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
-