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Macknowledge term software: how good is it?

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From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 00:32
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Practical Peripheral modems are (supposedly) shipping with a terminal program
called Macknowledge (which I assume is no relation to the Acknowledge
communications "toolkit").  The blurbs provided in the P.P. ads don't tell me
very much about what I want to know about it:

* Does it emulate VT100?  (MS-DOS-oid "ANSI" is *not* acceptable.)
* Does it emulate VT102?  (I.e. insert/delete line and character)
* Does it handle the DEC line-drawing set?
* How many "function keys" does it support, and how?  Keyboard macros?
  Mouse-y clickbuttons like RedRyder (9.4, I have no knowledge about 10.x)?
  (If it requires the extended keyboard, forget it.)
* Does it have any scripting capabilities?  Icon-based setup is all well and
  good, but doesn't stand up to the real world all that well.
* What's the maximum speed it handles *well* on an SE?

I plan to get a real communications program (probably MicroPhone II) in the
future, but upgrading my Mac RAM and getting an external modem are the top
priorities at the moment and MPII will probably have to wait.

Thanks in advance,
++Brandon
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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Subject: Macknowledge term software: how good is it?
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Date: 12 Sep 89 00:32:27 GMT
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