Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA From: jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Apple Access Message-ID: <788@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 02:35:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.788 Posted: Tue Jun 12 02:35:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 23:45:50 EDT Lines: 19 From: James ByrdSomeone a few days back (I don't remember who) pointed out that Apple has come out with Apple Access, a terminal program that claims to have vt100 compatibility as one of its options. The vt100 compatibility claim isn't true. For one thing, the manual only claims that it implements "most" of the vt100 features, whatever that means. To see it fail pretty badly, try this: dial up to a computer that has an emacs editor, call emacs on some file, split the screen, and use "escape z" in the lower window a few times. As soon as the text starts to scroll down, the display falls apart. Other examples are easy to find. The package would be a LOT more more useful if Apple had actually implemented the vt100 commands. As it is, I'm not sure what it's emulating. It seems only marginally useful for trying to use a screen editor which thinks it is on a vt100. Jim Byrd