hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) (01/18/91)
I plan to use a NeXTstation from home, connecting occasionally via a Telebit 9600 baud modem to computers at the University. I would like vt100 emulation on a large screen (80 characters with 40 lines or more), Tektronix 4014 emulation (with automatic entry upon detection of Tek vectors), the ability to save and to edit Tektronix pictures as PostScript, and the ability to transfer files back and forth between the NeXT machine and university fileservers (kermit, xmodem, others?). Note: I plan to try SLIP or PPP with X at some point, but strongly suspect the response will be quite slow compared to vt100 terminal emulation. Too bad that a software version of the GraphOn X-terminals has not appeared, which use compression and remote memory on fileservers to make X acceptably fast. Can people in a similar situation tell me what software they are using for telecomputing? Is it necessary to purchase the commercial product Communicae to meet these goals? Can anyone who has used Communicae tell me if they are pleased with this software? Thanks, Henry