DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET (Dwaine L. VanBibber) (09/26/89)
Is anyone out there running YTERM under DESQview. I'd like to know what DESQview settings you're using. I'm having trouble. Thanks. -Dwaine
mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) (09/27/89)
In article <89268.151345DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET> DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET (Dwaine L. VanBibber) writes: >Is anyone out there running YTERM under DESQview. I'd like to know what >DESQview settings you're using. I'm having trouble. Thanks. -Dwaine Please excuse the noise, but.. What is YTERM? Is this anything like XTERM for X-WINDOWS? Or is it something completely different? -Mark
geer@cardinal.yalecs.edu (John Y. Geer) (09/29/89)
In article <275@bmers58.UUCP> mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) writes: >In article <89268.151345DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET> DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET (Dwaine L. VanBibber) writes: >>Is anyone out there running YTERM under DESQview. I'd like to know what >>DESQview settings you're using. I'm having trouble. Thanks. -Dwaine > > Please excuse the noise, but.. What is YTERM? Is this anything like XTERM > for X-WINDOWS? Or is it something completely different? > -Mark YTERM is an IBM PC based terminal package written at Yale and distributed by the Yale Computer Center. [Frankly, I think it sucks.] It supports key redefinition and a fast file transfer (YTRANS). It seems to be used best with our VM/CMS system that has a large PC archive. I seem to recall that it even supports the APL character set. john y. -- --- geer@CS.YALE.EDU Hochspannung Lebensgefahr yuson@castor.wustl.edu yuson@pollux.wustl.edu readnews be news
jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) (10/05/89)
In article <GEER.89Sep28202132@cardinal.yalecs.edu> geer@cardinal.yalecs.edu (John Y. Geer) writes: >YTERM is an IBM PC based terminal package written at Yale and distributed >by the Yale Computer Center. [Frankly, I think it sucks.] It supports >key redefinition and a fast file transfer (YTRANS). It seems to be >used best with our VM/CMS system that has a large PC archive. I seem >to recall that it even supports the APL character set. > > john y. FAST file transfer? Maybe there are newer versions that I don't know about. I'm using (I think) 1.3. We also have (I think) 2.1, but it trashed the screen occasionally while I was using VI, so I gave up on it and went back to 1.3. As for file transfer, YTRANS (known as PCTRANS around here) is a total loss. If you're trying to transfer a text file that begins with asterisks or periods, it hangs. Avoid YTERM at all costs. -- James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU jwbirdsa@pucc.BITNET ...allegra!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa Compu$erve: 71261,1731 "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin
ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard Ferris) (10/05/89)
In article <10698@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes: >In article <GEER.89Sep28202132@cardinal.yalecs.edu> geer@cardinal.yalecs.edu (John Y. Geer) writes: >>YTERM is an IBM PC based terminal package written at Yale and distributed >>by the Yale Computer Center. [Frankly, I think it sucks.] It supports >>key redefinition and a fast file transfer (YTRANS). It seems to be >>used best with our VM/CMS system that has a large PC archive. I seem >>to recall that it even supports the APL character set. >> >> john y. > > FAST file transfer? ... > Avoid YTERM at all costs. I agree that Yterm has a very slow file transfer. I have found that ProcommPlus is very good for VM/CMS systems. First it has a special emulator just for VM/CMS (3270/950). Second, it has a bunch of other good stuff which Yterm lacks (as do most telecomm packages). Finally, if you have Kermit on the VM/CMS system you can easily do Kermit filetransfers with either the built-in Kermit or by callin MSKermit as an external file transfer protocol. I have also heard that people use MSKermit alone as their comm package with the VM system. Obviously you could do file transfers within that system. RF Richard T. Ferris ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania