Low cost Terminal emulator for DOS/Windows

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From: Grant McLean
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 21:24

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We have a customer who is looking for a good low cost terminal emulator for
PCs running DOS (although windows support would be a plus).  Initially they
specified that VT220 emulation was required but they wnat to use at least
10 of the function keys on the PC keyboard and this has been a problem
for those emulators we've looked at so far.

So the spec now is an emulator package which:

	- Supports any cursor addressing/attribute codes that we can
	  map in TERMCAP/TERMINFO
	- Generates some escape sequence for each function key that
	  we can map in TERMCAP/TERMINFO
	- Is commercially supported (the customer doesn't want shareware)
	- Is 'inexpensive' (ie: not as expensive as the fully featured
	  VT emulators such as SmartTerm)

Support for file transfer protocols is not required.

Does anyone know of such a beast?  Has anyone had any positive experiences
and can recommend a particular package?

Thanks
Grant

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Grant McLean            |                   | EMail:     grant@unisys.co.nz
Unix Support Specialist |                   | Phone: (GMT+12)(64 4) 4984558
Unisys New Zealand Ltd  |                   | Fax:           (64 4) 4711953

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