22 Nov
1998
22 Nov
'98
1:10 p.m.
Why do you think that is? It shouldn't be too
difficult to duplicate a
VT100; after all, the specs are available.
Yeah - that's what all the emulator writers think, too :-).
I do agree with you, though.
Every communications program I've used always messes up on _something_.
While one might work with BBS A but give weird characters with B, the other
one is the other way around, even if they both use VT100, or ANSI, or
whatever the case might be.
This is sort-of a "creeping freaturitis". Some emulator supports
some non-standard command/control string, the BBS writers use it
and include this string in their display. Another emulator - or
the real terminal - makes garbage on the screen when presented
with this code. Call up the folks who wrote the BBS, it'll turn
out they never saw the real terminal.
I think it may partially be the fault of the BBS
program, but when connecting to a DEC system, this is of course not an
issue.
And other times the emulator doesn't do everything that it's supposed
to!
Tim. (shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com)