From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 03:05:17 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep13.041545.25033@news.iastate.edu>

In article <1992Sep13.041545.25033@news.iastate.edu>
barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) rambles:

|In article <abeech.716337691@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech
)
|writes:
|>Anyone know of a commercial or PD comms package that will correctly emulate
|>VT220 and VT340 terminals?  I need to connect to a Sun and use Word Perfect.
|>The VT100 and VT102 emulations are not suitable for this type of work.
|
|   Several such products exist for the Mac and IBM systems, but none exist for
 
|the Amiga unfortunately.  I've been looking for such software for the past fou
r
|years.  I have even offered to help get VT240/340 databooks to various authors
|of VT200-compatible Amiga terminal packages who would guarantee writing a
|VT240/340 emulation program, but none have taken me up on my offers.

The Mac and IBM "products" are as bad as DEC's PathWorks; in other words:

				GARBAGE

Note the enclosed, which touts a functioning VT200-style emulator for the
Amiga, and note the date: 1988.  The program works PERFECTLY, and even does
the double-high/-wide stuff which even DEC's PathWorks cannot do (kinda makes
one wonder: DEC is not dealing with a full deck, since they are even unable
to today (1992) emulate their 1979 VT100).

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*  Meshugena V1.0 -- A **VT220 terminal emulator                           *
*  Copyright   1988                                                        *
*  By Michael S. Leibow                                                    *
*                                                                          *
*  This software is released as shareware and may be freely distributed    *
*  provided that this copyright message remains at the beginning of this   *
*  file and that this file is included in the distribution.  This software *
*  may not be used for direct commercial advantage.  This software or its  *
*  copies may not be changed in any way except to either store or restore  *
*  it to or from an archived format.                                       *
*                                                                          *
*  The information in this software is subject to change  without  notice  *
*  and  should  not  be  construed  as  a commitment by the author.        *
*                                                                          *
*  The  Author  assumes  no  responsibility for the use or reliability of  *
*  this software.                                                          *
*                                                                          *
*  Author:  Michael S. Leibow      23-APR-1988                             *
*                                                                          *
* **  VT220 is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.  At the time  *
*           of the creation and release of this software, the author,      *
*           Michael Leibow did not work for Digital Equipment Corporation. *

******* OVERVIEW ***********************************************************
          This is not a general communications package.  If you need some of
     the features of other general packages such as
          o one zillion emulations
          o one zillion file transfer methods
          o weird character sets (i.e. EBCDIC)
     then this  program is  not for you.  This program is dedicated to those
     of you have already bought an Amiga, a  modem, and  need to communicate
     with some sort of computer that supports the 8 bit ANSI protocol.

     This program offers:
===> o VT220 emulation (80 and 132 columns)
          Not a  fake emulation...  This emulation covers everything I could
          find in the VT220 owners manual except the printer stuff.
        f.
        + 7 and 8 bit character sets
        + Multinational Character Sets (c0, c1, GL, and GR)
        + Special Graphics set
        + emulates full LK201 keyboard (VT52, VT100, VT220)
        + VT52, VT100, and VT220 compatibility
        + terminal  modes :  (KAM, IRM,  SRM, LNM,  DECCKM, DECANM, DECCOLM,
          DECSCLM, DECSCNM, DECAWM, DECARM)
        +  All  character  renditions  :  (off,  bold, underscore, blinking,
          reverse, erasable, not_erasable)
===>    + All Line Renditions : (normal, double width, double height).
        + ANSI tab stuff.
        + Probably more which I forgot...
     o Multiple sessions
          + each session has its own set-up configuration
          + independent menus
          + separate windows each with scroll bars and other gadgetry
     o Transcript buffer
          + 0 to some_big_number lines of output history
     o Works well in workbench environment
          + can start from icon.
          + all errors shown in requesters
     o window iconification to save chip ram
     o easy to use user interface

     For more information on the VT220  operation,  buy  a  VT220  from your
     nearest VT220 dealer, and read the owners manual.