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From: ceb@netcom5.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Subject: Re: VT100 Term Programs??
In-Reply-To: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com's message of 19 May 1994 23:42:27 GMT
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Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 08:01:32 GMT
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In article <JKH.94May20004227@nx.ilo.dec.com> jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
In article <michaelv.769364529@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>support vt100 emulation for some systems I call and some things like IRC on
>the internet. I dont have X installed right now so seyon is not an option.
Kermit works just great for me.
He did say "with vt100 support"
Answer: Without X, there really isn't much of anything. The best bet
would be to run the pcvt console driver out of /usr/ports/util/pcvt
(full instructions for installation are there) and use its VT220
superset emulation directly.
Weeell, not so fast. It seems there's something out there called
pcomm, which is a public-domain knockoff of Procomm, and while I
haven't set it up and run it, I did briefly grab the shar files from
uni-stuttgart and look. It seems to be somewhat terminal-independent
and non X based.
I also noticed the pcomm files were sharred up by Paul Vixie, who, if
memory serves me correctly, was recently seen in one of the other
386bsd groups actively Jesus (Monroy) bashing (and, this time, based
on wrong information).
Perhaps when Paul gets through with more pressing matters he can
comment on the capabilities of pcomm.
Mahself, I'm happy with Seyon, and my disk is full (again).
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