15 Oct
2004
15 Oct
'04
4:08 a.m.
Rumor has it that Paul Koning may have mentioned these words:
Why not just hook up your handy-dandy ever-trusty Tandy Model 100/102 or
200 laptop? IIRC, It used VT52 as the serial protocol for it's screen...
;-) You do have one, right? ;^>
Just set the screen parameters to 40x8 or 40x16 respectively, and 600 or
1200 bps (again, respectively; scrolling was a bear on the Tandys and could
cause lost characters -- altho there are patches available on
www.club100.org that could improve the problem and attain you 9600bps,
IIRC. The Tandy 200 was better than the 100/102.) and hop into TELCOM.
Might need a little tweaking, but it should work...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
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>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
Ron> Well, Kermit did the same thing as the two terminal
Ron> programs.. Even though they say they are vt100 compatible, they
Ron> still spew garbage and don't make the proper screen with
Ron> vt50dpy... however vt50dpy running on a serial port on the host
Ron> system works fine.. I just want to work at that terminal.
Ron> what's funny is the terminal emulators work fine with teco/vt. I
Ron> suppose vt50dpy makes more use of the terminal control codes..
Chances are that VT50DPY (given its name) uses VT52 escape sequence,
not ANSI escape sequences. It seems likely that a lot of terminal
emulators do ANSI pretty well, but VT52 not well at all.