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- From: ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: THE STORM and VT200???
- Message-ID: <3630@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:15:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.100102.1@sscl.uwo.ca>
- Sender: root@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario
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- In article <1992Nov4.100102.1@sscl.uwo.ca> richardson@sscl.uwo.ca (John Richardson) writes:
- > know if THE STORM has VT200 emulation. At present I am using Uniterm, which is
- > excellent for emulation but not too user friendly (IMHO). Perhaps STORM will
- > have a nice interface with VT200 emulation...sigh! Also, I haven't tried the
- > 'original' Flash (latest Alan did was 1.6...right!) Does Flash have VT200?
-
- Are you sure you need vt200 rather than vt102 (which is vt100 plus advanced
- video features?) I've seen a lot of people asking about vt200 and vt300
- emulation when all that's required is vt102, or often just vt100. Flash 1.6
- vt100 emulation is very good for Unix etc., but not as complete as Uniterm
- when it comes to advanced video (like double height and width characters,
- bolding, etc.), which is used more often on VAX/VMS machines. However even
- Uniterm doesn't do all of the advanced vt102 stuff like blinking text
- for example. This is not even vt200 stuff.
-
- So, it would be a better question to ask what video features you require,
- rather than just "vt200", which is widely misunderstood, is what I was
- trying to say. :)
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- ken@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ] Ken Newman
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