jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan) (02/01/89)
I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. Does anyone know of such a package, or even better have one. Thanks, Jim.
silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) (02/02/89)
In article <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu> jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan) writes: >I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably >public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA >display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 >lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. In general, the "Unix System" has a file called termcap or something like that which contains many terminal definitions for all sorts of different bits of hardware. As long as a given terminal type, say VT-100 or Heath-19, is in your TERMCAP file you could use any terminal emulator package which claims to emulate the above. Depending on the shell you use in Unix, there are different ways of telling the system what type of terminal you are using. Most commercial Comm programs such as Procomm or Qmodem have many different types of emulation built in, but as far as I know these do not take advantage of over 25 lines on any given screen, mainly because most full-screen terminals only have 25 lines, thus more would be unnecessary and confusing for full-screen UNIX programs such as EMACS. Andy Silverman Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu CompuServe: 72261,531
ssa@mrsvr.UUCP (Shahrooz S. Alavi) (02/03/89)
From article <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu>, by jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan): > I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably > public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA > display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 > lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. > > Does anyone know of such a package, or even better have one. > > Thanks, > > Jim. First you have to find a comm program that can produce more that 24 or 25 lines in a screen. If you have Windows, the included comm program or a public domain program called proteus can do that. If you want to be able to use the extra lines effectively (ie in vi emacs, etc) you have to change the existing entry (or create a new one) in your /etc/termcap file to the new line number. d0|vt100|vt100-am|dec vt100:\ :cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:\ .... in the example above you need to change li#24 to 50 or whatevere your communication program can produce. You can create a new entry in your termcap file that is the same as above exept for li# and call it vt100-xtra or something like that and you have to set your TERM envir variable (sh) to that value when you log in. I hope this helps.. ======================================================================= / /| | |\ \ | | /__ /_| | |_\ \ | | ...att!uwmcsd1!mrsvr!ssa / / | | | \ \ | | (414) 547-9429 / o / | |__ | \ \| | (414) 521-6607 (work) =======================================================================
palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) (02/08/89)
From article <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu>, by jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan): > I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably > public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA > display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 > lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. > > Does anyone know of such a package, or even better have one. > You might try hacking up the termcap entry of a aaa terminal. I used Telix's VT100 mode, switched the video to display 50 lines in the misc options, then when I logged into xenix set a term type of 'aaa48db'. I could actually edit a file in 50line mode. There where some wierd scrolling at the bottom though. ---Bob -- Bob Palowoda Work: {sun,decwrl,pyramid}!megatest!palowoda Home: {sun,pryamid}aeras!grinch!legends!fiver!palowoda BBS: (415)796-3686 2400/1200 Voice:(415)745-7749
allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (02/15/89)
As quoted from <7562@netnews.upenn.edu> by silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman): +--------------- | In article <6450@paris.ics.uci.edu> jbrennan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (James Brennan) writes: | >I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably | >public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA | >display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 | >lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. | | Most commercial Comm programs such as Procomm or Qmodem have many different | types of emulation built in, but as far as I know these do not take advantage | of over 25 lines on any given screen, mainly because most full-screen | terminals only have 25 lines, thus more would be unnecessary and confusing | for full-screen UNIX programs such as EMACS. +--------------- Tell that last to someone who uses windowing systems like SunView or the 3B1 with a small font.... Telix 3.11 has 43 (EGA) and 50 (NOT 60) (VGA) line modes available on the ALT-M menu. Since my computer has a Hercules display card (as of a week ago, to run Windows), I can't tell you how well they work. They are both 80 columns; I've seen a VGA clone do 132x60, but have yet to see a terminal program that uses it. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@<backbone> NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser
caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (02/25/89)
:I was wondering if any out there knows of a good terminal emulator, preferably :public domain, for the Unix system. I have an IBM compatible with a VGA :display board. I would like to use the cards ability to display more than 25 :lines on a screen but haven't found any such communication package. ZCOMM will read the number of lines and columns being displayed when it starts up or regaind control after a shell escape. This allows a wide variety of screen "sizes" to be supported. If the EGA/VGA video bios supports a function to switch to 132 columns, ZCOMM can be set to use this call to switch between 80 and 132 colums using the ANSI escape sequences. Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software" 17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406 TeleGodzilla:621-3746 FAX:621-3735 CIS:70007,2304 Genie:CAF