rgenter@ENTERPRISE.BBN.COM (Rick Genter) (09/09/86)
What communications packages are currently the favorite amongst 800 owners? I need something that can talk Kermit, and preferably uses my Hayes SmartModem at 1200 baud (i.e., I don't want to have to buy another modem). Please reply to the address below, and thanks in advance. -------- Rick Genter BBN Laboratories Inc. (617) 497-3848 10 Moulton St. 6/512 rgenter@labs-b.bbn.COM (Internet new) Cambridge, MA 02238 rgenter@bbn-labs-b.ARPA (Internet old) linus!rgenter%BBN-LABS-B.ARPA (UUCP) I feel like I'm in a Toilet Bowl with a thumbtack in my forehead!!
jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (09/10/86)
I believe David Young of CDY Consulting (421 Hanbee, Richardson TX 75080 or (214) 235-2146) is working on a terminal emulator that speaks Kermit and runs under his OMNIVIEW O/S chip which gives resident 80-column capability and a high degree of compatibility with the old 800 O/S. He also supplies an 80-column WP program with OMNIVIEW. I have been using this for several months and find it quite a pleasure to use compared to the 40-column WP packages. David just released a VT-100 emulator for OMNIVIEW but I think Kermit is not quite released...will be very soon, tho. David??? -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
hyc@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Howard Chu) (09/10/86)
I've been running a test version of the VT-100 emulator, and it works fairly well. It has a Kermit implementation installed now, but I haven't been able to test it with my 1030 modem yet. I'll have to second John's comments though - OmniView works very well and running an 80 column terminal program is definitely more pleasant than running in 40... Note that OmniTerm, which comes on the WP disk, is also 80 column and it speaks Xmodem. Just an aside - does anyone use the Kermit which came out for the Atari and 850 interface or 1030 modem? I've got a version for the 850, but it's no good with my 1030. It's supposed to support VT-52 emulation and does horizontal scrolling to get 80 columns. (If anyone has the binaries for the 1030 version, could you let me know? Thanks!) -- Howard Chu hyc@umix.cc.umich.edu
joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) (09/16/86)
I have written a vt52 terminal emulator for the 8-bits that has xmodem, but no kermit. The 80-columns is achieved with a horizontal scroll. It is called VTERM, and it is free. Perhaps of more interest though is that it contains 2 handlers. One called V: which is a screen output device which does the vt52 emulating. And one called R: which is used when you have a 1030. This emulates a smart- modem for the 1030. It allows you to use the 1030 exactly like it was an 850 with a smartmodem hooked up to it. Just use it instead of loading the normal 850 handler boot file. It also operates the same as the 850 handler. You just open it up to talk to the modem, then close it when you want to do serial I/O with the disk drive or whatever. It is so much like the 850 handler/850/smartmodem combination in operation, that most other terminal programs can use it unchanged. It allows you to use the 1030 where you wouldn't normally be able to. Both handlers can be used indepentent of the Vterm program. I am using this program now. I have an 850 and a smartmodem on it now, but when I wrote it I was using the 1030 setup. (I have just graduated to 1200 is all). j.h.