jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (05/15/87)
Marshall: As you probably know, I run CDY's OMNIVIEW (on an 800XL) here, and use CDY's OmniCom these days, mostly because it includes kermit, xmodem, and most recently, ASCII file capture and built-in Print Screen functions. (And of course you can "capture" to the file named "P:", i.e. the printer, if you wish.) With the current price of OMNIVIEW with 80-column word processor down at $39.95 last I heard, you and others wishing VT100 emulation with kermit ought to consider OMNIVIEW/OmniCom. Incidentally, the graphics emulation is quite a bit more complete, and in my opinion, the character font a little more pleasing, than VT10SQ. The kermit in OmniCom has worked very well both with VAX kermit and with kermit on a local Zenith-PC based BBS, which are the only two cases I've tried. I've used the xmodem on a couple of other BBSs which don't support kermit, and that has worked very well also. I believe OMNIVIEW is also available for the 400/800, and of course you could run OmniCom too, since it is disk-based. Should you wish to go this way, you could be "on the air" with kermit almost immediately, as well as having a true 80-column word processor. Nevertheless, with VT10SQ a Public Domain program I applaud the idea of enhancing it ultimately to have similar features. And by the way, thanks for sending it to me lo those many months ago. I got a lot of use out of it as a vanilla VT100 emulator before I bought OMNIVIEW, but it's a lot more convenient to have everything built into a single program like OmniCom. -John Sangster/jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa