Red Ryder and VI
David Berry
berry at tolerant.UUCP
Wed Nov 27 07:56:09 AEST 1985
> I have been trying to communicate from my Mac at home with the UNIX 4.2
> system where I work. I am using Red Ryder. My Mac has 128K, and the modem
> is a 1200 baud Volksmodem. I can login correctly, and evn
> begin a vi session. The trouble is that some of the vi commands do not
> work properly with Red Ryder. Using the command key as Control, I try to
> invoke various keystroke sequences, but unexpected results sometimes occur.
> The same thing happens with Red.
>
> Is anybody familiar with this problem? Are the bugs in Red Ryder
> perhaps the culprit? Finally, would I be better off using MacTerminal?
So far with my copy of Red Ryder (6.2) I have made the following decisions:
1. Don't use the vt100 emulation. Use vt52 instead. The vt100
emulation loops forever when you send it a Delete Line.
2. Tabs are incorrectly implemented in all emulations. Use
stty -tabs and everything should work.
3. It is disappointing that it doesn't talk to mac{put,get}.
I do, however, have a public domain implementation of
xmodem that kind of works. (Anybody out there have
a version that really works with Red Ryder, or source
for Kermit for a 4.2 BSD system?)
Regardless of these draw backs I find it an extremely well done package
for the price and would highly recommend it to anyone who needs a terminal
emulation package for the mac. Especially, if they don't have one of the
copies of MacTerminal that are floating around.
Other than
--
David W. Berry
...!ucbvax!tolerant!berry
[Don't shoot the Tolerant Systems, I'm just the consultant]
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