[comp.os.minix] vt100, zmodem, shells

guineau@star.enet.dec.com (05/30/91)

Could someone point me to a VTxxx terminal emulator for Amiga (or ST) Minix? Preferable
something I can use ZMODEM with.

Also, what's the best tcsh or ksh like shell to use? Does CLAM work on Amiga (ST)minix?

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miquels@htsa.htsa.aha.nl (05/30/91)

In article <22982@shlump.lkg.dec.com> guineau@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>Could someone point me to a VTxxx terminal emulator for Amiga (or ST) Minix?
>Preferable
>something I can use ZMODEM with.
>
>Also, what's the best tcsh or ksh like shell to use? Does CLAM work on Amiga
>(ST)minix?
>
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>W. John Guineau                  			grep meaning life | more
>VMS Development
>Digital Equipment Corporation		guineau@star.enet.dec.com

I am currently working on three projects:

- The Extended Bourne Shell. This thing is to become POSIX compliant, and
  includes things like functions, builtin-commands-redirection,
  command line editing, history etc etc. There are already some people
  using it, and I plan on releasing a beta version on the net within one
  or two months (since I'll soon have summer holidays). It is based on
  the Minix 1.5 shell, and completely compatible.

- A windowing package for Minix. Fred van Kempen originally wrote
  this thing, and I am improving it a little. This is NOT a graphics
  window package, just termcap based.

- With this package, I am writing a full-screen terminal emulator.
  Today I got vt100, ansi and Minix emulation to work OK. It will become
  a little clone of the well-known TELIX communications program for
  MS-DOS. I expect this one to be ready in a month or so, though you need
  to implement non-blocking reads in the kernel. I use the TIOCICNT call,
  which is a part of Advanced Minix (Ha! I have it!). TIOCICNT returns
  the number of characters available in the input buffer.

So, I think I made some people very curious. Just have a little Patience..

Miquel. (I am posting this at school, but you can also reach me as
	 miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org).

Joerg Conradt <jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de> (05/31/91)

> 
> Could someone point me to a VTxxx terminal emulator for Amiga (or ST) Minix?

hi mailers...
since i don't belong long to this group it might be that i missed
something like an /etc/termcap file for minix. but if there was really
nothing like that posted long ago - could not anyone copy a version
from a big (firm-) computer and post it for everyone?
thanx a lot Joerg
P.S.: Does anyone know something of a WORKING termcap entry for a
      hp2622a terminal ?!?
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guineau@star.enet.dec.com (06/01/91)

As it turns out, MINIX provides enough ANSI escape sequences to make it look sort of
like a VT100. 

If you set the TERM variable in .profile to vt100, and then do a $SET TERM/DEV=VT100
on the VMS system, it works well enough to use editors etc.

	(from minix sh)
		set TERM=vt100
		export TERM

Thanks to Dave Wecker for the help.

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