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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 13:07:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 13:07:59 1984
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	We are looking for a good vt100 emulator for the
IBM PC. In particular, it must:

		support vt52 emulation,

		allow text transfers between PC and a host,

		allow use of either COM1 or COM2 ports.

	We are looking at VTERM now, so if anyone has used it,
or knows anything about it, we would appreciate your comments.

	Thanks in advance,

				ken bass
				faron!linus!kbb

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Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 11:06:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 11:06:10 1984
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 >  	We are looking for a good vt100 emulator for the
 >  IBM PC. In particular, it must:
 >  		support vt52 emulation,
 >  		allow text transfers between PC and a host,
 >  		allow use of either COM1 or COM2 ports.
 >  	We are looking at VTERM now, so if anyone has used it,
 >  or knows anything about it, we would appreciate your comments.

We are very happy with SmarTerm 100 (VT100/52 emulation) and SmarTerm 400
(Data General Dasher emulation) from Persoft, Madison WI (608) 273-6000.
They also have SmarTerm 125, for VT125 emulation, and support XMODEM and
their own binary file transfer protocols.  See Jan. 1985 PC World, p. 24.

I am related to this company only as a customer.

       Stephen L. Arnold, Joiner Associates Inc.
Mail   P.O. Box 5445, Madison WI  53705-0445
Phone  608 238-8134
Telex  650 110-6813
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Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 11:54:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp!forbus    Dec 27 10:54:00 1984

The latest version of Hayes' SMARTCOM II does exactly what you are looking
for.  It has passable emulators for vt52, vt100, and televideo terminals.
It now includes the XMODEM protocol, although KERMIT would be better
(Sigh!).  I use it regularly to ship files back and forth, and it works
quite well.

Message-ID: <31800001@waltz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 04:49:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 04:49:00 1985
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Nf-From: waltz!lindahl    Jan  2 03:49:00 1985

I have personally tried SMARTTERM (mentioned by Steve Arnold), CROSSTALK
(another commercially-available product, I don't remember the company), and
PC/Intercomm (written by the same folks who wrote FINALWORD, Sign of the
Unicorn).

In the first response to this note, the author was lamenting the lack 
of KERMIT support: supposedly CROSSTALK supports this with the newest 
release (I will be looking at this next week).

I'd strongly suggest dropping by your local computer store for a 
"test run", as I did before buying. 

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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 10:09:00 EST
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Nf-From: txsil!gertjan    Jan  2 09:09:00 1985

I think KERMIT is the answer. Look in newsgroup fa.info-kermit where
to get the programs. If you don't managed to get it, ask me.

Kermit performs reasonably as a terminal emulator, the bottleneck is
the slow 8088, but it is allright. And kermit is available on virtually
any machine, even 36-bits and 60-bits beasts.


				: gertjan vinkesteyn, SIL DALLAS
	..{allegra,ctvax,ihnp4,rice,uiucds,unmvax}!convex!smu!txsil!gertjan

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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 21:27:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 21:27:00 1985
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Nf-From: waltz!lindahl    Jan  3 20:27:00 1985

Get ahold of the January issue of MICRO COMMUNICATIONS (good mag). In it,
there is an article entitled "THE LINK TO ASYNC HOSTS", which documents
a LOT of different asynch terminal emulator companies. Particularly
good are the two tables: one lists the products, another lists the 
vendors.

Charlie

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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 20:16:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 20:16:44 1985
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Wow... I just got a copy of a vt100/102/52 emulator that works
just great... all you have to do is send a formatted ds/dd diskette
with a mailer and $5 or $10 to:

Mark C. DiVecchio
9067 Hillery Drive
San Diego, Ca 92126

He will then ship to you (I got mine within a week) the diskette back
with the emulator and a printable doc file (200k+) ..  This is one
of the best performance/cost bargains that I have seen since Turbo-Pascal..!

It even goes as far as having two setup screens (A/B), Hayes dialing,
XMODEM transfers, and line printer support..
-- 

					David Mutterer
					[vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave


"Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated."

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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 16:56:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 16:56:31 1985
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Wow... I just got a copy of a free vt100/102/52 emulator that works
just great... all you have to do is send a formatted ds/dd diskette
with a mailer and some money for postage to:

Mark C. DiVecchio
9067 Hillery Drive
San Diego, Ca 92126

He will then ship to you (I got mine within a week) the diskette back
with the emulator and a printable doc file (200k+) ..  This is one
of the best performance/cost bargains that I have seen since Turbo-Pascal..!

It even goes as far as having two setup screens (A/B), Hayes dialing,
XMODEM transfers, and line printer support..
-- 

					David Mutterer
					[vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave


"Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated."