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- From: lawrence@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Thomas Lawrence)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Terminal Emulations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.014650.19198@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:46:50 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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- Hello Everyone in Modem World...
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- I'm writing a terminal program designed to connect to UNIX systems.
- I'm getting VERY VERY sick of VT100. There seems to be all kinds of stupid
- stuff that has no bering on what I'm trying to do. I want a SIMPLE
- terminal, and I'd like to emulate it fairly completely, in case I want
- to connect to some other systems.
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- I'm looking for something like the Soroc IQ140 (which I have to reject
- because of a disgusting lack of a backspace key. Left arrow is backspace,
- which plays havoc with some text editors.)
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- What I want:
- Line insert and delete
- Character insert and delete
- Ability to scroll backwards
- Cursor motion
- Bold, Underline, Inverse attributes
- Clear to end of line
- 80x25 (or 80x24...)
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- What I DON'T want:
- Double width, double height characters
- Multiple character sets
- Strange Terminal controls (e.g. VT100's ESC [ {sol} x, whatever that is)
- 132x25, 132x52, or other strange selectable screen resolutions
- Any other stupid stuff that isn't necessary.
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- If you have a terminal description or know where I can get one (or even
- just know the name of a nice elegant terminal I can emulate, please
- e-mail me!)
-