Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!babyblue!geer From: geer@cardinal.yalecs.edu (John Y. Geer) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: YTERM and DESQview Summary: what Yterm is Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 89 00:21:32 GMT References: <89268.151345DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET> <275@bmers58.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Lines: 21 In-reply-to: mlord@bmers58.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 13:24:35 GMT In article <275@bmers58.UUCP> mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) writes: >In article <89268.151345DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET> DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET (Dwaine L. VanBibber) writes: >>Is anyone out there running YTERM under DESQview. I'd like to know what >>DESQview settings you're using. I'm having trouble. Thanks. -Dwaine > > Please excuse the noise, but.. What is YTERM? Is this anything like XTERM > for X-WINDOWS? Or is it something completely different? > -Mark YTERM is an IBM PC based terminal package written at Yale and distributed by the Yale Computer Center. [Frankly, I think it sucks.] It supports key redefinition and a fast file transfer (YTRANS). It seems to be used best with our VM/CMS system that has a large PC archive. I seem to recall that it even supports the APL character set. john y. -- --- geer@CS.YALE.EDU Hochspannung Lebensgefahr yuson@castor.wustl.edu yuson@pollux.wustl.edu readnews be news