sdo@cs.purdue.EDU (Shawn D Ostermann) (06/19/91)
I've been trying to use my wife's Mac II as a dialup terminal to access my Unix accounts. Since I live and die in emacs (Gnu), I MUST have a terminal program that does the emulation well, preferably for a vt100, since that is what everyone uses. All of the ones that I've used do a less-than-satisfactory job with reverse video, which makes things a real pain. In addition, I also want to be able to upload and download papers, etc, for work. I have been unable to find a terminal emulator that I like: MacTerminal: Mine is a very old version which usually dies, and it doesn't have reverse video, which make emacs mode lines painful. Is the current one any better?? MS Works: vt100 terminal emulation stinks. I have to redraw the screen quite often as the mode lines meld with the text. Zterm.85 The vt100 emulation is pretty good, and I REALLY like the upload/download software. It only has one flaw, it doesn't seem to understand that everything written in the middle of a highlighted section should STAY highlighted. Emacs draws a highlighted mode line, and then updates pieces of it a bit at a time. Eventually, most of it is no longer in RV. Is there a fix for this?? I DO like that I can easily change the font... Red Ryder I didn't try this as extensively, but the emulation doesn't seem to be as good as ZT85 Does anyone out there have any favorites for use with Emacs?? I don't mind paying a little if I can find a good package, either commercial or ShareWare, but I can't afford to buy something that won't work. Thanks, Shawn +++ ATH
sdo@cs.purdue.EDU (Shawn D Ostermann) (06/19/91)
I've been trying to use my wife's Mac II as a dialup terminal to
access my Unix accounts. Since I live and die in emacs (Gnu), I MUST
have a terminal program that does the emulation well, preferably for a
vt100, since that is what everyone uses. All of the ones that I've
used do a less-than-satisfactory job with reverse video, which makes
things a real pain. In addition, I also want to be able to upload and
download papers, etc, for work. I have been unable to find a terminal
emulator that I like:
MacTerminal:
Mine is a very old version which usually dies, and it doesn't have
reverse video, which make emacs mode lines painful. Is the current one
any better??
MS Works:
vt100 terminal emulation stinks. I have to redraw the screen quite
often as the mode lines meld with the text.
Zterm.85
The vt100 emulation is pretty good, and I REALLY like the
upload/download software. It only has one flaw, it doesn't seem to
understand that everything written in the middle of a highlighted
section should STAY highlighted. Emacs draws a highlighted mode
line, and then updates pieces of it a bit at a time. Eventually,
most of it is no longer in RV. Is there a fix for this?? I DO
like that I can easily change the font...
Red Ryder
I didn't try this as extensively, but the emulation doesn't seem to
be as good as ZT85
Does anyone out there have any favorites for use with Emacs?? I don't
mind paying a little if I can find a good package, either commercial
or ShareWare, but I can't afford to buy something that won't work.
Thanks,
Shawn
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In article <15045@ector.cs.purdue.edu> sdo@cs.purdue.EDU (Shawn D Ostermann) writes:
I've been trying to use my wife's Mac II as a dialup terminal to
access my Unix accounts. Since I live and die in emacs (Gnu), I MUST
have a terminal program that does the emulation well
I've been using the mac end of MacLayers (without the Unix end, but
with the MacLayers termcap entry, which is slightly different from the
vvanilla vt100 version). It seems to work fine as far as emulation
goes, and does allow a choice of a few font sizes and windows larger
than a real vt100. My main gripe is that I have two displays, and if
the smaller is the "main" display, then even if the maclayers window
is on the larger display maclayers won't let me make it larger than
would fit on the small display.
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