marriott@grebyn.com (Marriott Corp.) (04/16/91)
Hi folks! I'm working on a project in which some of our clients will be using DOS PC's as their UNIX terminals. A requirement for some of our users is the ability to display more than the normal 24 or 25 lines on the screen. For certain parts of the system we would like to be able to display 40 to 50 lines on the screen. More than 80 columns is not necessary, and in fact we would prefer to have a 50-line by 80-column display. This would mean that the terminal emulator should be able to take advantage of alternate character-generation modes of the video adapter. (You can assume that all the PC's upon which this emulator will be used will have VGA boards and monitors. We have found that the 132-column emulators which use VGA graphics mode are difficult to read and are relatively slow. So we would be primarily interested in an emulator that used the higher-capacity character-based video modes.) Since this requirement extends to only certain users and screens of our system, we need to be able to programatically change from 25-line mode to 50-line mode and back again as needed with minimal disruption to was is already on the screen. PC Magazine recently had an issue that reveiwed many PC terminal emulators. Unfortunately, the article didn't address the capability of having more than 25 lines on the screen. Does anyone out there have any recommendations as to what terminal emulator might be suitable for our needs? Thanks. You may email me at marriott@grebyn.com. Chris Cobb, Software Engineer
caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (04/21/91)
In article <1991Apr16.031404.2089@grebyn.com> marriott@grebyn.com (Marriott Corp.) writes:
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-Hi folks!
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-I'm working on a project in which some of our clients will be using DOS
-PC's as their UNIX terminals. A requirement for some of our users is
-the ability to display more than the normal 24 or 25 lines on the
-screen. For certain parts of the system we would like to be able to
-display 40 to 50 lines on the screen. More than 80 columns is not
ZCOMM and Professional-YAM read the number of lines and columns from
the BIOS when they start up. If your VGA board can be set to
60 lines, ZCOMM and Pro-YAM can use it. They also can switch to 132
columns for VT1/2xx emulation provided the VGA's BIOS supports such a mode.
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
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<-I'm working on a project in which some of our clients will be using DOS <-PC's as their UNIX terminals. A requirement for some of our users is <-the ability to display more than the normal 24 or 25 lines on the <-screen. For certain parts of the system we would like to be able to <-display 40 to 50 lines on the screen. More than 80 columns is not < <ZCOMM and Professional-YAM read the number of lines and columns from <the BIOS when they start up. If your VGA board can be set to <60 lines, ZCOMM and Pro-YAM can use it. They also can switch to 132 <columns for VT1/2xx emulation provided the VGA's BIOS supports such a mode. Also available is RBCOMM (by Ralf Brown) which is distributed as FREEWARE. This comm program adapts to any screen size, and supports VT1xx emulation, including switching to 132 columns. At the price, one really cannot go wrong. Full featured macro language, compiler, dialing directories, DESQVIEW support, and seamless integration with DSZ if it ever becomes necessary to perform bulk file transfers to/from *NIX. DSZ is SHAREWARE from the same guy who suggested ZCOMM/YAM. (DSZ == ZMODEM/XMODEM/YMODEM). -- MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario *** Personal views only *** begin 644 NOTSHARE.COM ; Free MS-DOS utility - use instead of SHARE.EXE MZQ.0@/P/=`J`_!9T!2[_+H``L/_/+HX&+`"T2<TAO@,!OX0`N1(`C,B.P/.DS <^K@A-<TAB1Z``(P&@@"ZA`"X(27-(?NZE@#-)P#-5 `` end