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From: robigo@icicle.winternet.com (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: any way to do VT100 terminal emulation from FreeBSD
Date: 29 Jan 95 16:43:06 GMT
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alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) writes:

>ROBERT, GABRIEL (g_rober@pavo.concordia.ca) wrote:
>> I am new to UNIX and just installed FreeBSD version 1.  I need to do VT100
>> terminal emulation to contact another computer.  I am currently using 
>> Kermit 5A(190).

>You can get a console driver for FreeBSD called pcvt.  I have an old beta
>of it available on my ftp server (ftp://ftp.phred.org/pub/BSD/pcvt*).

There is also a program called Screen which will emulate a VT100 for
you.  I don't know where to get it, though.  Look around on archie and
on freebsd.cdrom.com.

-John