[comp.os.cpm] The MEX Package

ZUC02AA@WYOCDC1.BITNET (Richard Travsky 307-766-3663/3668) (02/23/88)

Last week I sent mail to this list about a CPM VT52 emulator for Kaypros that
wasn't working too well.  I have since learned enough about the problem to know
that it is unresolvable.  Instead I have been pointed to MEX,  which,  I am
told,  has fair VT100 emulation.  MEX is commercially available with this fea-
ture (known as MEX-PLUS or something like that) for a hundred bucks.  Does any-
one know if any of the files in <CPM.MEX> are equivalent in functionality to the
commercialy avaliable version?

As long as I'm here...  I sort of have a way to FTP things now,  but we haven't
got a nameserver in operation.  Can someone tell me the numerical address of
SIMTEL20?  Thanks in advance!

Richard Travsky
University of Wyoming
ZUC02AA@WYOCDC1.BITNET

mikes@ncoast.UUCP (Mike Squires) (02/28/88)

In article <880222112709.000008E6.LASK.83@WYOCDC1> ZUC02AA@WYOCDC1.BITNET (Richard Travsky  307-766-3663/3668) writes:
>Last week I sent mail to this list about a CPM VT52 emulator for Kaypros that

The Kaypro emulates an ADM3a.  I used the public domain version of MEX on a
Kaypro and set the terminal type to ADM-3a (setenv TERM for UNIX, a "set"
command I've forgotten for VAX VMS, something else for CDC NOS 2.1.  Also,
Kaypro used to bundle a terminal emulator with the machine.

For those interested in computer archaeology, this message is being entered
at through an IMSAI 8080 running MEX 1.12.

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