Looking for good (usable?) term program for OS/2 2.0

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2 total messages Started by Matt Mosley Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:00

#867

Author: Matt Mosley
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:00

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I've been looking around, and had no luck so far.

The "Softerm" that comes with OS/2 2.0 is *really* pitiful.  

What I'm looking for is a terminal that supports vt100 emulation (TRUE
vt100, with backspace instead of ^H) and, preferably, zmodem.  Backscroll
would be nice, too.

I don't want anything that's GUI.  Reason?  Because it slows it down
considerably, especially at 14400 baud.  The graphical text can't display
as fast as a plain old text window can.  Full-screen is also NECESSARY -
no pitiful little 80-columns-in-1-inch windows.

Does anything like this exist, or am I looking for too much?

Matt.

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Re: Looking for good (usable?) term program for OS/2 2.0

#869

Author: Chris Shabsin
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:22

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In article <By56pL.LDJ@access.digex.com> mattm@access.digex.com (Matt Mosley) writes:

   I've been looking around, and had no luck so far.

   The "Softerm" that comes with OS/2 2.0 is *really* pitiful.  

   What I'm looking for is a terminal that supports vt100 emulation (TRUE
   vt100, with backspace instead of ^H) and, preferably, zmodem.  Backscroll
   would be nice, too.

   I don't want anything that's GUI.  Reason?  Because it slows it down
   considerably, especially at 14400 baud.  The graphical text can't display
   as fast as a plain old text window can.  Full-screen is also NECESSARY -
   no pitiful little 80-columns-in-1-inch windows.

   Does anything like this exist, or am I looking for too much?

TE/2 sounds like what you're looking for.  It's available on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Only problem is, even though it's the best I've
found so far, even in full screen mode it has trouble keeping up with
14.4k with compression, on a 386sx-16 :)  Anyone got a really good,
fast vt100 emulator with zmodem and support for 50 or even 57 line
screen mode for OS/2?  Oh, one other thing, TE/2 has a setup option
for backspace/del, but ^H is theoretically the correct vt100 action.
However, I have it set up as del.  :)

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