preece (02/16/83)
#R:uiucdcs:24700001:uicsl:7300002:000:761 uicsl!preece Feb 10 10:20:00 1983 The local software (the part on the pc) must read the incoming stream and recognize control sequences that need to be interpreted. There are several commercial packages that include these capabilities, usually emulating common terminals such as the vt100. The IBM Asynchronous Communications support software can be modified to work with a special termcap definition, but it makes a slow terminal emulator even slower (maybe it would be ok at 300 baud, but at 1200 it has a lot of trouble keeping up). The source code for a terminal program for use with the Basic Compiler was distributed in net.sources a couple of months ago, along with its own termcap definition. IBM is supposed to have an emulator for the 3101 terminal available (it may be out already).