cfj@omovax.UUCP (Charles Johnson) (01/11/85)
I have a smart terminal program for my C64 called Smart 64 Terminal +4 by Microtechnic Solutions. It is suposed to be able to emulate a vt52 terminal with 40 columns. My question is, does anyone else have this product and have successfully used it on a Unix system with vi ? I tryed talking the standard vt52 termcap entry and just changing the number of columns to 40. It didn't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles F. Johnson
miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP (01/15/85)
The following was written for Unixterm, which also emulates a VT-52 terminal.
It isn't likely to work as is, since you have a different VT-52 emulation
package, but it should give you some idea of what's required:
alias c64 "setenv TERMCAP /mntb/1/lawrie/miller/.c64;setenv TERM c64;set term = c64;stty -tabs"
#
# The following entry provides for destructive
# backspace for the "terminal5" software for c64,
# VT-52 type cursor motion, reverse scroll,
# and codes for use of the cursor control keys:
#
qc|c64|C64|Commodore 64:co#40:li#25:\
:up=\EA:am:ho=\EH:\
:nd=\EC:so=\EO:se=\EN:ce=\EK:\
:cd=\EJ:sr=\EI:bc=\ED:\
:cl=\EH\EJ:cm=\EY%+ %+ :\
:ku=^B:kd=^P:kr=^T:kl=^E:long@ittvax.UUCP (H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]) (01/15/85)
> I have a smart terminal program for my C64 called Smart 64 Terminal +4 by > Microtechnic Solutions. It is suposed to be able to emulate a vt52 > terminal with 40 columns. My question is, does anyone else have > this product and have successfully used it on a Unix system with vi ? > I tryed talking the standard vt52 termcap entry and just changing > the number of columns to 40. It didn't work. Any suggestions would > be appreciated. I have Smart 64 Terminal and it has some nice features (.img to program, text to basic, local dos commands, data capture and extract) but mine doesn't have vt52 emulations. A program I obtained from Compuserve called TERM-80 does (and can emulate 80 columns in graphics). Term-80 works well with the 2 termcap entries provided. XMOBUF (C64 Xmodem/Vidtex-type program) is excellent for transferring files with umodem (Unix Xmodem) but doesn't have a terminal emulation program built in. Neither do any of the 'punter' protocol telecommunications programs I use to access C64 BBS's. Of course the program I am really enthusiastic about is Kermit for the C64 (also known as Kermit-65) and I will post a review to the newsgroup after I have tried and evaluated it. I am bootstrapping the program now - the documentation provides details of many more features than many commerical programs - Kermit packet protocol, local dos commands, vt52 emulation, communications with a server on the mainframe and the ability to use baud rates greater than 1200 (I will try this on a direct RS232 connection and see if the c64 can keep up at 1800 and 2400 baud). All in 6502 assembly language. I can send documentation on the various programs mentioned here. H. Morrow Long ITT-ATC Systems Center, Shelton, CT path = {allegra bunker dcdvaxb dcdwest ucbvax!decvax duke eosp1 ittral lbl-csam mit-eddie psuvax1 purdue qubix qumix research sii tmmnet twg uf-cgrl wxlvax yale}!ittvax!long