Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Advice re. Terminal Emulator
Message-ID: <447@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 16:51:10 GMT
References: <22940@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <22940@labrea.Stanford.EDU> philf@med-isg.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez) writes:
>I am looking for advice about a terminal emulator for my Mac II.  I am
>using a Telebit Trailblazer modem, usually running at 9600bps.  I
>often use full-screen programs such as emacs.  I am currently using
>Red Ryder 10.3, but it's pretty much worthless at 9600bps.  The VT100
>emulator can't begin keep up with the character stream.  In addition,
>RR seems to insist on performing XON/XOFF flow control.  I really want
>it to do hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.  Finally, I'd dearly love to
>find a good VT220 emulator (one that supports character
>insert/delete).

From the Versaterm crowd, the answer is, of course, Versaterm!
Actually, it doesn't do a complete VT220 emulation (it doesn't do
double-high, double-wide characters, smooth scrolling, and other
esoteric things), but it does do insert/delete character/line, all
graphics and attributes (in colors if you want) and it's just about the
fastest emulator out there (although I hear MicroPhone II is supposed
to be pretty hot, too).

I leave my termcap entry set to vt220 and Versaterm runs fine.  It also
runs great under Multifinder and for those of you without, supports
desk accessories during UniFinder downloads.  Wow.  Yes, I do like this
program.

For $79, how can you go wrong?

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