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Subject: Apple Access
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Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 02:35:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 02:35:20 1984
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From:  James Byrd 

Someone 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