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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Comm Programs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.005122.10765@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 00:51:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.191141.15813@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan3.200958.4583@scott.skidmore.edu> <1993Jan8.231519.10817@usl.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1993Jan8.231519.10817@usl.edu> das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >I'm rather disappointed with what I've tried out from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
- >And I tried almost everything there.
- >I just cannot seem to get a good vt100 emulation. Everytime I try to
- >edit something (with VI, if that matters), characters get 'blanked'
- >over with a left-cursor press (not backspace). Things don't seem
- >'solid'. Y'know?
- >So I end up using a Windows term program (UNIX Windows), which in the 1.04
- >incarnation has excellent vt100.
- >With this in mind, can anyone point to a simple vt100 term program?
-
- C-Kermit 5A(188), available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
- (check /pub/os2/00Index for location) is generally regarded as having
- excellent VT-100 emulation.
-
- >Also, is it generally agree that the Softterm that come swith OS/2 is unusable?
-
- Not generally, no. In certain respects it is rather powerful (you can
- remap each individual key, for example). Its VT-100 emulation is also
- quite good. However, it can be a bit daunting to configure, the
- dialing support is not terribly sophisticated, and it won't minimize
- when you are downloading a file. (Not that that is strictly
- necessary, but it is slightly inconvenient.)
-
- >Hmm, maybe I'll look into commercial programs, I hate loading up WINOS/2 every
- >time I want to check email.
-
- On the commercial side there's HyperAccess/5 3.0 (which I use and
- like, generally), TalkThru, REXXTerm, ChipChat, Dynacomm Asynchronous,
- and a few others.
-
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