boutland@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Boutland) (04/16/91)
I recently got a copy of Coherent and so far am quite satisfied with its performance and features, except for the Kermit that comes with it. Kermit is fine for file transfers but little else. I do a lot of work on a Pyramid computer running UNIX System V. The system also supports ucb, csh and ksh environments. Coherent's Kermit seems to have little idea of what sort of terminal I am using. I've managed to get somewhere by specifying my vt100 terminal as being a 4410 but this is still inadequate both for running vi and emacs, so much so that I'm tending to use MINIX rather than Coherent. The MINIX has a copy of term which seems to do satisfactory terminal emulation, or whatever you call it (I'm not well up with this sort of stuff). Can anyone advise me on this problem ? PS. The Coherent version is 3.1.0
wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr ) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.013538.24340@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, boutland@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Boutland) writes: > > Coherent's Kermit seems to have little idea of what sort of > terminal I am using. Kermit gives you a transparent connection - it doesn't do any emulation - so it doesn't care what type of terminal you're using. The type of terminal you should specifiy to any remote system is the type of terminal your console emulates. That's not determined by Kermit - that's built into the console driver. Which leads to the question you really wanted to ask: what type of terminal does the Coherent console driver emulate? Since I don't have Coherent, I don't know. But, since I am thinking about it, I'm just as interested as you in finding out. Anybody? -- Bruce Wehr (wehr%dptc.decnet@srlvx0.srl.ford.com) (..!uunet!srlvx0.srl.ford.com!wehr%dptc.decnet) Ford Motor Company - Engineering Technology Services P.O. Box 2053, Room 1153, Dearborn, Michigan 48121-2053 (313)337-5304
ratazzie@lonex.radc.af.mil (Edward P. Ratazzi) (04/18/91)
In article <40308@fmsrl7.UUCP> wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr ) writes: >In article <1991Apr16.013538.24340@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, boutland@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Boutland) writes: >> >> Coherent's Kermit seems to have little idea of what sort of >> terminal I am using. > >Kermit gives you a transparent connection - it doesn't do any emulation >- so it doesn't care what type of terminal you're using. > >The type of terminal you should specifiy to any remote system is the >type of terminal your console emulates. That's not determined by Kermit >- that's built into the console driver. Which leads to the question you >really wanted to ask: what type of terminal does the Coherent console >driver emulate? Since I don't have Coherent, I don't know. But, since I >am thinking about it, I'm just as interested as you in finding out. > It seems to be an ANSI emulation. This leads to another question: What (if any) terminal emulators are available for Coherent? Is there anything like a VT100 emulator which would allow for the use of the numeric keypad? How about graphics terminal emulation (Tek40XX)? One of the problems I'm having in becoming a user of Coherent exclusively (i.e. not having to switch over to DOS for certain tasks) is my lack of a good terminal emulator. I made an attempt at getting pcomm (from comp.unix.sources) running, but it seems that it's too large a program for Coherent. Anybody got any ideas? TIA, -- E. Paul Ratazzi | ratazzie@lonex.radc.af.mil Microelectronics Reliability Division | COMPMAIL: e.ratazzi Rome Laboratory (USAF/AFSC) | (315) 330-2946 "Exploring the Invisible Frontier" | DSN 587-2946