>Why do you think that is? It shouldn't be too difficult to duplicate a
>VT100; after all, the specs are available.
Yeah - that's what all the emulator writers think, too :-).
> I do agree with you, though.
>Every communications program I've used always messes up on _something_.
>While one might work with BBS A but give weird characters with B, the other
>one is the other way around, even if they both use VT100, or ANSI, or
>whatever the case might be.
This is sort-of a "creeping freaturitis". Some emulator supports
some non-standard command/control string, the BBS writers use it
and include this string in their display. Another emulator - or
the real terminal - makes garbage on the screen when presented
with this code. Call up the folks who wrote the BBS, it'll turn
out they never saw the real terminal.
> I think it may partially be the fault of the BBS
>program, but when connecting to a DEC system, this is of course not an
>issue.
And other times the emulator doesn't do everything that it's supposed
to!
Tim. (shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com)
Received on Sun Nov 22 1998 - 21:10:40 GMT
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