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Regarding VT320 emulation for AIX and Unix:

>Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>  Bob Shair <rmshair@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>:   Bernhard Hochstetter <bhochstetter@psi.de> wrote:
>: > Luc Nys <nysl@atess.bel.alcatel.be> wrote:
>: > >
>: > > I'm looking for a VT 320 terminal emulator program for AIX.
>: > > Who can give me some ideas/hints? Any help is appreciated.
>: > >
>: I regret that, as far as I can discover, C-Kermit under Unix doesn't
>: provide terminal emulation. 
> ....
> It is true that C-Kermit does not provide terminal emulation.
> But that is because X Windows provides users with things like 
> Xterm and AIXterm which provide very substantial terminal capabilities.
> ....
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html        (for Kermit-95)
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit60.html  (for C-Kermit 6.0.192)

 ....

The person who asked the original question has not provided much
detail of exactly what capabilities are needed, other than that the
VT320 emulation is supposed to run under IBM's AIX variant of Unix.

It is quite possible that the application does not require any of the
specialized capabilities found only in the DEC VT320 terminal;  perhaps
an emulation of the earlier VT220 would suffice. 

Possibly T.E. Dickey's VT220-emulating new "xterm" would do the job:

    http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.html

(This xterm also can do ISO 6429 color.)

Furthermore, there are some commercial products that claim to emulate a
VT320 and are advertised as running under AIX, as well as other versions
of Unix.  Here is a partial list:

   FacetTerm   http://www.facetcorp.com/ft_overview.html

   IsoTerm     http://www.bg.com/isoterm.html

   Cleo A+     http://www.intface.com/Datasheets/aplus.htm

For a commercial application environment, one of the above might be best.

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(For those who have not found it, all the video-terminal lore I have
 collected over many years is available on the web, from this base page:

    http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html

 On the DEC page, there is a link to a Postscript file prepared by a DEC
 employee showing how each generation of terminals executed a superset
 of features of the previous generation and when new features were
 introduced.)

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 ...Richard S. Shuford
    (relocating at the end of September)