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Re: The quest for the PERFECT VT100 emulator continues...

#27677
From: Glen P. Dudevoir
Date: Mon, 02 May 1988 03:02
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In article <1250@csvax.liv.ac.uk> sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
>Yes, I too am interesting in finding a so-called 'flawless' VT100 terminal
>emulator - does anyone have this Terminal DA 1.5 that keeps getting
>mentioned ? If they do, could they e-mail it to me BinHex 4.0'ed ??
>
>By the way, on the subject of VT100 terminal emulators - here's my
>assessment of the one's I've seen :
>
>VT100
>Maculator   - I thought I'd put a plug in for this one because I wrote it
>              myself ! Interesting features : double height width/text,
>              very fast E-test, double-width cursor on double width lines,
>              session logging, dual-speed smooth scrolling, IntelliMouse
>              cursor positioning (click and cursor gets there - even allows
>              for tabs, unlike other emulators), written in Turbo Pascal.
>              NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE (YET....), but will be made Public
>              Domain if anyone's interested....I might even release the
>              sources if people like it...
>
>Please keep e-mail directly to me to a minimum - I'd rather read any comments
>in NEWS (I like a good argument !)...
>
>Richard K. Lloyd,  
>
>"I have VERY strong opinions which are nothing whatsoever to do with the
>University of Liverpool, so blame ME if I bitch about useless IBM PC clones,
>even more redundant IBM mainframes and the terrible Atari ST..."

Well here's another strong opinion.  Why don't you make your 
emulator public and give the rest of us a chance to critique it.
I does the net no good to have a review of a piece of software that is
not available to anyone.

Glen
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From: dudevoir@isl.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir)
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Subject: Re: The quest for the PERFECT VT100 emulator continues...
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Date: 2 May 88 03:02:16 GMT
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