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Re: Decent VT-100 Emulator for Mac Plus?

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From: R
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00
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MacKermit worked very well for me.  The latest version is 0.99(190)
Don't be fooled by the version number. It's very stable and it's free.
Available at usual site.

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Ray Zhang ~{UESjLo~} ray@eris.umb.edu   http://www.cnd.org/HYPLAN/ray/

On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, walter g=F6rlitz wrote:

> davef@tiac.net (David Fenichel) wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >I'm trying to help get a friend/client set up with a shell account.  He
> >can't effectively do PPP because all he has is an old Mac Plus.  I agree=
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> >to teach him what he'd need to know about unix to do lynx and pine.
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> >Unfortunately I can't find a terminal program which works well enough.=
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> >True vt-100 emulation would be nice (we were using the comm program in
> >MS-Works) as would something that would allow either the Option or Fan
> >key  to use in place of control-key combinations, and arrow-keys, both
> >essential for use with the two programs I mentioned.  (He hasn't a
> >keypad.)
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> >Kinda has to be inexpensive (shareware?) or free.
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> ZTerm does a fine job and should run on the Plus. It will run under
> System 6.
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From: R <ray@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: Decent VT-100 Emulator for Mac Plus?
Date: 1996/03/19
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