Re: VT-100 for use with protocol converter

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From: J. Philip Miller
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 05:48

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In article <8812141453.AA15206@jade.berkeley.edu> Eric Job <ERIC%ETSU.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
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>But CrossTalk is really more than the user needs.  Are there any
>VT-100 emulators out there for PCs that will let the user define
>the SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and plain function keys F1-F10 (better if
>F1-F12)?  Support of highlighting is also desired.  Public domain
>would be nice but it's not a requirement.

Well, my first response would be "why not Kermit?"  We and many others
have had good experience with kermit (especially 2.31) for this type of
use.  You can set (almost) any key to any output sequence.  About the
only thing of the vt100 class of instructions which is not supported is
132 col displays!

-phil

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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: VT-100 for use with protocol converter
Summary: use kermit
Message-ID: <278@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 05:48:22 GMT
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Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
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