crd9852@ritcv.UUCP (Charlie Dennett) (01/06/87)
A friend of mine let me borrow his 1030 modem for a while. He bought an ST and has another modem to use with it. He also let me borrow his copy of Chameleon. There seems to be a few bugs with the VT52 emulation. Maybe someone out there can help me. I have Chameleon version 4.03. The termcap file that came with it is for a terminal similar to a VT52. It really does not seem to work. For example, according to the temcap file, the code for a clear screen is Escape H Escape J. That does not work. Yes, I did set up Chameleon to emulate a VT52XL and executed the termcap file I downloaded from the Chameleon disk just like the instructions said. Does anyone know of this problem and possibly any soultions to what I've mentioned? Oh yes, something else I noticed. When Chameleon is set up to emulate the Glasstty and I am listing something to the screen and I fill up one line, the next character to print wraps around to the next line just like I would expect. However, when I am in either of the VT52 modes, it does not wrap. The excess characters just overwrite one another in the last column on the screen. Is this a known problem or is it perhaps a switch in the termcap file? Thanks for any help. If I can get this working, maybe I can use vi from home. Of course, any problems I am having could be due to operator error and not bugs in the software!. In case it matters, I am using this on an 8000XL. Just in case you are wondering and to prevent any flames, I am waiting for the Atari 1200 baud modem to hit the market. I will return the modem *and* software to my friend. I am not and have no intention of pirating this software.
joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) (01/07/87)
Someone expressed interest about having trouble with Chameleon. I have a vt52 emulator that I wrote called vterm. It works on all computers and 850/smartmodem and 1030 modems. I mentioned this a while ago, but never got around to posting it. The reason I didn't was because I didn't know the correct procedure for encoding and posting a binary file to the net. If someone can send tell me how to do this (and send me the little basic program to do it maybe) I will be glad to post it. It works just beautifully with vi. I have no trouble on sally with vt52 emulation. Perhaps I can include the termcap here also. It is similar to Chameleon in that it has a scrolling 80 columns. The rest of it is somewhat different. It is a VERY good vt52 terminal emulator. j.h.
Fleysher.wbst@XEROX.COM (Dan Fleysher) (01/08/87)
Joe - The following messages contain descriptive text and sources for a couple of little dogs I wrote in Atari Basic called BINHEX and HEXBIN. They convert public domain binaries to HEX text, for sending across the net in text messages, to be converted back to Binary again on the Atari at the other end. A simple check-sum scheme is used to ensure nothing has been dropped in transmission. A few binaries have been circulated in the past couple of years using BINHEX and HEXBIN. They run pretty slow, but mailing a floppy across the country isn't exactly free... Everyone else - Message me if you don't have these files and want them. Dan -----------------------------------
jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (01/09/87)
Aw, c'mon, folks! Why not just buy CDY's OMNIVIEW chip and get a REAL 80-column terminal emulator (OmniCom) and word processor (OmniWriter) instead of one you have to scroll across the page?! (Not to belittle other programs, but once you have tried true 80 columns on your Atari, you will really find it "extremely distasteful" (to quote the CDY literature) to have to go back to a 40-column system.) -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa (I have no financial interest in CDY Consulting, nor, alas, in any other moneymaking corporation. Though a couple of them would if they could...)