terminal emulator wanted

Larry Williamson larry at focsys.UUCP
Sat Apr 30 04:17:57 AEST 1988


I am looking for a simple, yet fairly complete terminal emulator
package.  By simple I mean, it does not need any fancy features that
would not normally be found in a terminal.  By fairly complete I
mean, it should support most of the useful ansi control sequences. 

The requirements are:

    . run on IBM-PC/XT (other end is a Unix machine).
    . support ansi screen control (especially colour)
    . pass ALL keyboard input to serial line, ie, no translation
      or interpretation of keys (especially control keys, ie. ^S)
    . serial port configuration (to 9600 baud)
    . after startup, only obscure key combinations should bring up
      any menus (ideally, there should be no menus to bring up)
    . that's all

There is no need for
    . file transfer features, ie, xmodem, kermit, etc.
    . modem control

I am prepared to use procomm plus if I must, but it has a couple of
bugs that I find annoying. 

The worst is that when you enter a ^S, procomm interprets this and
blocks the screen updates.  The application on the unix machine
expects to see the ^S as part of a command sequence.  The user
should not be confronted with some (to them) obscure menu asking
them questions when they accidentally hit a key like PgUp.

There may be ways around these bugs (or features), but if a simpler
package is available, then that is what I'd like. 

Is there such a beast? Have you got one? How much is it? Please call
today.

-- 
Larry Williamson                      Focus Automation Systems
UUCP: watmath!focsys!larry    608 Weber St. N, Waterloo, Ontario N2V 1K4
                                          +1 519 746 4918



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