gmd@ihuxw.UUCP (George MacDonald) (02/24/84)
Has anyone in net.appleland seen MACTERM running? In particular I'm looking for the VT100 emulation and am not buying my MAC till I know this works. According to a local comp. store MACTERM is being beta tested and is due out very soon( like end of Feb.). It looks very similar to LISATERM from the documentation. Has anybody found any problems with useing the VT100 emulation on the LISA? Thanks in advance George MacDonald ATT Bell Labs
jed@mb2c.UUCP (John E. Duncan III) (03/01/84)
I have had a chance to use LisaTerm, and the descriptions of MacTerm don't seem to fit. MacTerm is supposed to support XMODEM file transfer protocol, where LisaTerm (at lease the version I got to play with) had no file transfer capabties. LisaTerm does emulate a VT100, and handles inverse, normal, underline, 80 col and 132 col. I suspect that the Mac will lack the 132 column feature although it is rumored that the National Optometric Lobby has approached Apple for this feature :-). The only problem that I have had with LisaTerm (besides the fact that it is painfully slow) is that it does not handle the Insert/Delete Line/Character. Without these, it makes using some editors painful. John Duncan (mb2c!jed) Michigan Bell (313) 424-0178