Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley From: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: desperately seeking vt100 emulator Message-ID: <722@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 18:08:45 GMT References: <1369@lll-lcc.aRpA> <11250012@hpldola.HP.COM> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) Organization: U.C. Davis - College of Engineering Lines: 22 Actually, I'm not that desperate. What I do want however is a vt100 emulator for the PC that uses the keyboard to send out the same escape sequences that a vt100 keyboard does in application mode. I have seen four or five that claim to be vt100 emulators and while some do a remarkable job of RESPONDING to the right escape sequences, not one use s the keyboard to produce them. The best I've seen so far is PC-VT, but it uses the function keys to emulate the keyboard. Not only is it to narrow, necessitating using a shift key, but it is on the wrong side. Qmodem is a good terminal emulator, but it doesn't support true vt100 and again, it uses the keyboard for functions (home shows help?????) and the function keys are user programmable, meaning that you can set up a keyboard there if you want. Is it impossible to write a vt100 emulator that uses the keyboard in a reasonable manner? Phil Windley Robotics Research Lab University of California, Davis