On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
  On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:07 PM, woodelf wrote:
  Lets talk about non-broken tools so that we can
run the old
 machines properly
 like a terminal emulator that works like a real terminal?
 Linux to my knowlage has none. 
    Sheer madness.  I use kermit in an xterm window
all the
 time...works great..
    I always use a real terminal when one is available, though. 
 Am I the only one who can't stand not being able to have a log of output
 that I can scroll back through, and not being able to cut and paste
 text from the terminal window?
 Those are the two main reasons I normally rather use a laptop or
 $macine_with_windowing_environment than a real serial terminal.  (This
 doesn't mean I don't have and don't use serial terminals, just that a
 real serial terminal is rarely my first choice for something that I
 want to be functional, instead of just "neat" and "pretty". :) 
If I'm on a console, it's usually enough of an emergency that
cut-n-paste is not really going to be the right tool.
Peace...  Sridhar