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- Welcome to FreeVT V0.4, 24. April 1995
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-
- - What is FreeVT?
- FreeVT is a little project of mine. I have spend allready many hours of work
- in it and will also do in the future. My goal was to write a free VT100 for
- the Psion S3a series palmtops. The reason why I chose to release this as
- freeware under the terms of the Gnu Copying License (see file COPYING) is
- that I wanted to start more freeware programming for the S3. There is a lot
- of shareware software around, but nearly no free usable programs; and never
- sourcecode. I do not claim for me to be a highly qualified programmer. But
- I did what was within my possibilities. Sources are included, so YOU can
- have a look at them and YOU can improve whatever you dislike.
- The Gnu Copying License also allows you to use the sources for whatever you
- like, but you _have_ to include the used parts as sources in your product
- and you have also to include a copy of the Gnu Copying License.
-
- - State of the art :-)
- Have a look at the file HISTORY to get a rough overview of what FreeVT is
- capabable of. There are still lot's of VT100 commands missing. But in the
- current release it is allready usable for most news- and mailreaders (I'm
- testing FreeVT with Linux (a free Unix-clone for 386 and compatibles) and
- tin,elm,bash).
-
- - Installation
- I have included, as said above, tho sourcecode "FREEVT.OPL". Just copy it
- to your Psion into the \OPL\ directory and the icon "FREEVT.PIC" to the
- "\OPD\" directory. Then recompile it.
- You may also install the precompiled "FREEVT.OPA" by copying the OPA-file
- (also included) to your \APP\ directory on your Psion.
- You should also create a new directory "\FVT\" where your various settings
- can be saved.
-
- - Problems, error-reports, bug-fixes
- Please send any of those either to
- nils@asgard.si.sub.de
- or
- nils@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
- or
- gl055@appl2.hrz.uni-siegen.de
- Any help is very appreciated and will of course be mentioned in the docs!
-
- - Sites to get FreeVT
- comp.binaries.psion
- Anonymous FTP:
- (don't know if it's really there)
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk /pub/packages/icdoc/psion3/comms/freevt*
- (is here for sure)
- ftp.uni-siegen.de
- [141.99,128.1] /Lokales/div/freevt*
- (will come)
- vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
- [141.99.208.50] /pub/psion3/LOCAL/comms/freevt*
- (maybe :-)
- ftp.uni-erlangen.de /pub/psion3/LOCAL/utilities/freevt*
-
- You may also call
- +49 271 3174028
- my home Linux system. Login as "gast" and, at the prompt, type "soft".
- Then change directory to "psion". To download the last release of FreeVT,
- type for YModem
- sb freevt.zip
- for ZModem
- sz freevt.zip
-
- so long
- CU
- nils
-
-