Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Ideal PC terminal program for use with Xenix/Unix? Message-ID: <562@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:24:28 GMT References: <22233@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 34 In article <22233@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: | The following things would be desirable | a) speed -- support 9600 bps on a PC. (19.2 would be nice, | but I have yet to see one that will do this on | a PC, other than by lots of buffering and ctrl-s) That's the easy one... standard Kermit does this very well. People claim to go 38.4 without flow control, I can only speak to 19.2, but I haven't had any problems on a "real" PC (4.77MHz). | | b) multiscreens | c) scancode mode -- like a WYSE, so that it can be used with | vp/ix etc. At this point you may want to consider either a terminal designed for the job or one of those neat optical fiber links which allow you to have a DOS and Xenix session running via hotkey. | | d) Some efficient smart mode that has a standard termcap. While | ANSI would be nice, I would rather have a usable non-ansi that | goes 19.2 or 9600 than an ANSI that goes more slowly. Kermit. | | e) The ability to map \ to shift for those good feeling, but No idea. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon