asgardia@unixland.natick.ma.us (Craig Rothman) (06/26/91)
Does anyone know why Kermit with the xep80 will not let me delete when I get past 40 characters on my screen? What should my screen attributes be set to for use with the xep80? and am I doing this right if I load in my XEP80 bootdisk prior to loading in kermit??? Also, has anyone written a TERMInal emulation for 8 bit that is powerful enough to run emacs? (ala vt102?) -craig ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig@umass.bitnet aka Craig Rothman "there is only one thing worse than being witty, and that is not being witty"- Oscar M. Wilde Sketch, Monty Python. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CURRENTM@CARLETON.EDU (Michael Current) (06/28/91)
asgardia@unixland.natick.ma.us (Craig Rothman) writes: > Does anyone know why Kermit with the xep80 will not let me > delete when I get past 40 characters on my screen? > What should my screen attributes be set to for use with the xep80? and > am I doing this right if I load in my XEP80 bootdisk prior to loading in > kermit??? > > Also, has anyone written a TERMInal emulation for 8 bit that is powerful > enough to run emacs? (ala vt102?) > > -craig Are you talking about Kermit-65? I assume you are. As I've pointed out a couple times now, Kermit-65 has never been really debugged to work properly on the XEP80. It runs, as you've discovered, but it has some weird behavior, especially when the cursor is on the right half of the screen. If you think Delete acts funny, try doing full-screen editing! Not good. This all has to do with the fact that to run K-65 on the XEP80 you tell it Set Screen Atari, which means "Just use the Antic gr.0 display, no scrolling windows, no 80 columns in gr.8. The author finally taught the "Atari" screen to not print cr's every line, but every other line, so it comes out right on the XEP80. But that's all he did. Other VT100 types of things still don't come out right. What's really neat is when the host sends a Clear Screen command, and K-65 only clears the left half of the screen! I am right now trying to obtain the program called VT850 that is supposed to do VT100 on the XEP80 nicely. Meanwhile, maybe now that there's not one but two of us that want Kermit-65 fixed for the XEP80, someone will magically appear out of NetLand to save the day. -Michael currentm@carleton.edu