wcs@ho95e.UUCP (x0705) (08/12/85)
> I am looking for a software package which emulates a graphics terminal > like a Tectronix 4010 e.g. on a AT&T 6300 (Olivetti M24). > Does anybody know wether such a program does exists and if so how to get it? > Many thanks in advance, >Jim van Keulen ..!mcvax!vu44!jim Tango is a terminal emulator system written by COSI (Computerized Office Systems Inc?) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It has two features that distinguish it from most other terminal emulators: 1) It's not just for ASCII terminals- it also emulates a Tektronix 4014, or optionally VT100, VT52, or IBM3101. 2) (the big win:) Using it feels different. On most terminal emulators, either you're doing MSDOS or you're doing terminal-emulation-for-the-host. Maybe you have to quit the terminal emulator, or maybe you can switch between the two modes, but it's clearly a 2-mode system, controlled from the PC side. With Tango, the UNIX side of things is in control. If you're doing something on the host, and you want to run a program on the PC, you type "pcexec pc-command args", do stuff on the pc, and you'll be back in shell when you finish. You can run processes on the pc and pipe output to UNIX programs, or vice versa. It feels like you've never left UNIX; you just felt like having the PC do some of the work instead of the host. This can be great if you want to do your editing on the PC, your main number-crunching and file storage on the host, use a spreadsheet on the PC, store files on the host, etc. Of course, it also has the usual ASCII and Xmodem file transfer stuff that most emulators have. I'm not sure if it really does full VT100 emulation or not; a brief glance at the documentation made me unsure about scrolling-region support, but someone else has my PC, so I can't check it right now. ---- Tango, UNIXtm, VT100, VT52, DEC, IBM, 3101, are all trademarks of AT&T, COSI, IBM, and DEC. -- ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs