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Re: Best communication program for the PC

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 04:57
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In article <1990Jan5.005143.10149@druid.uucp>, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> My father uses Telix (I'm not sure which version) and he can't use any
> curses programs when he dials into my UNIX system.  Seems the ANSI-BBS
> and VT-100 emulations aren't complete enough to handle all the screen
> access.  The same seems to be true of an older version of Qmodem that
> I tried.  I have a user using Procomm and he seems to have no problem
> and MSKERMIT also works fine.  Anyone had similar experiences?

The VT100 emulation is supposed to be fixed in the new Telix version,
3.13. I use Boyan 4.01 for my Unix work. Seems to work just fine, and
gets along great with curses programs.
(unless I crash before resetting to cooked... now I know how curses
_really_ got its name ;-)
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From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Best communication program for the PC
Summary: fixed in 3.13
Keywords: Telix vt100 ansi emulation
Message-ID: <239@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 04:57:08 GMT
References: <1246@awdprime.UUCP> <1990Jan5.005143.10149@druid.uucp>
Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska
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