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From: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: desperately seeking vt100 emulator
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Date: 15 Dec 87 18:08:45 GMT
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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