[Simh] Request for Reccomendations - Telnet

From: Mike Cesari <mcesari_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu Oct 14 19:07:08 2004

On Oct 14, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:

>
> On Oct 14, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Ed Kelleher wrote:
>
>> At 07:27 PM 10/14/2004, you wrote:
>>> Well, Kermit did the same thing as the two terminal programs.. Even
>>> though they say they are vt100 compatible, they still spew garbage
>>> and don't make the proper screen with vt50dpy... however vt50dpy
>>> running on a serial port on the host system works fine.. I just want
>>> to work at that terminal.
>>>
>>> what's funny is the terminal emulators work fine with teco/vt. I
>>> suppose vt50dpy makes more use
>>> of the terminal control codes..
>>
>> Please pardon my ignorance here, I'm going out on a limb ...
>>
>> vt50dpy as in VT50/VT52??
>> VT100's were ANSI, VT50/VT52 were DEC specific.
>> They used way different programming codes.
>
> I suspect I misunderstood the manual when it said "Use VT50DPY for
> vt50,vt52 and vt100 terminals."

VT100's (and later DEC terminals) have a VT52 mode. xterm doesn't AFAIK.

Mike
Received on Thu Oct 14 2004 - 19:07:08 BST

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