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Hi folks!

I'm working on a project in which some of our clients will be using DOS
PC's as their UNIX terminals.  A requirement for some of our users is
the ability to display more than the normal 24 or 25 lines on the
screen.   For certain parts of the system we would like to be able to
display 40 to 50 lines on the screen.  More than 80 columns is not
necessary, and in fact we would prefer to have a 50-line by 80-column
display.  This would mean that the terminal emulator should be able to
take advantage of alternate character-generation modes of the video
adapter.  (You can assume that all the PC's upon which this emulator 
will be used will have VGA boards and monitors.  We have found that 
the 132-column emulators which use VGA graphics mode are difficult to
read and are relatively slow.  So we would be primarily interested in an
emulator that used the higher-capacity character-based video modes.)
Since this requirement extends to only certain users and screens of 
our system, we need to be able to programatically change from 25-line 
mode to 50-line mode and back again as needed with minimal disruption to
was is already on the screen.

PC Magazine recently had an issue that reveiwed many PC terminal
emulators.  Unfortunately, the article didn't address the capability of
having more than 25 lines on the screen.  Does anyone out there have any
recommendations as to what terminal emulator might be suitable for our
needs?  

Thanks.  You may email me at marriott@grebyn.com.

Chris Cobb, Software Engineer