tmyers@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tim Myers) (03/08/91)
Our university is putting on line a new VAX and software that they recommend VT 220 emulation for use. I've heard them recommend MacTerminal for comm software, but also understand that VersaTerm will emulate a VT 220 terminal. I'd appreciate any recommendation on these two programs, or others you are familiar with. Thanks. Tim ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Myers ........... tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu Ohio University
xmgb@pvi.UUCP (Mike Barton) (03/09/91)
In article <3060@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tmyers@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tim Myers) writes: >Our university is putting on line a new VAX and software that they >recommend VT 220 emulation for use. I've heard them recommend >MacTerminal for comm software, but also understand that VersaTerm >will emulate a VT 220 terminal. > >I'd appreciate any recommendation on these two programs, or others >you are familiar with. Thanks. > I rate the available terminal emulators thus: 1 - MacKnowledge - Excellent scripting, and good VT100 emulation 2 - Versaterm Pro - poor scripting, good vt220 emulation, and tek4105 graphics 3 - Microphone - reasonable scripting, fair emulation high $ 4 - Zterm - passable 5 - White Knight - yuck! Michael Barton C C 1 - MacKn >Tim > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Tim Myers ........... tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu >Ohio University
perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) (03/09/91)
In article <571@pvi.UUCP> xmgb@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Mike Barton) writes: > >I rate the available terminal emulators thus: >#2 - Versaterm Pro - poor scripting, good vt220 emulation, and tek4105 graphics Unless you need Tek pan/zoom etc get regular VersaTerm (i.e. not PRO) much cheaper, everything else is identical. -- Over 80% of the German's supported Hitler. Did that make him right? -- Richard Perlman |*| perl@pbseps.pacbell.com |*| (415) 545-0233
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (03/14/91)
In article <3060@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, tmyers@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tim Myers) writes: > I'd appreciate any recommendation on these two programs, or others > you are familiar with. Thanks. Other have mentioned the other programs that I would have so instead of being redundant I will mention another they didn't (ours). You might also like to look into TCP/Connect II VT version which contains a VT220 and VT240 eumlation over the network. We give universities discounts on the price, so make sure that you mention that you are an educational institution. Also, we over a package called the InterCon Telnet Driver/Tool. Which is a package of network untilities that allow MicroPhone II and any program that uses the ComToolBox access to TCP/IP networks. Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu (03/16/91)
>In article <3060@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> tmyers@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tim Myers) writes: >>Our university is putting on line a new VAX and software that they >>recommend VT 220 emulation for use. I've heard them recommend >>MacTerminal for comm software, but also understand that VersaTerm >>will emulate a VT 220 terminal. >> >>I'd appreciate any recommendation on these two programs, or others >>you are familiar with. Thanks. >> We have a vaxcluster running VMS. I have tried the most recent version of MacTerminal (toolbox based) and didn't like it at all. I haven't tried VT220 emulation in Versaterm, but have used 4.0 (not toolbox version) with VT100 emulation and also White Knight. I prefer Versaterm and would recommend it. If you want something free and can live with VT100/102 emulation only, then MacKermit is a possibility. It's functionality is severely limited (e.g., you can't copy to clipboard; no scripting or even autodial from a list of phone numbers), but it at least allows you to define key macros so you could define appropriate keys for special keys in the vax environment. I doubt it will handle special screen text attributes, however, if the vax software exploits that. It is available on sumex-aim and lots of other places.