Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Aug 2005

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Subject: Re: Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?
   From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net>
   Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:37:23 -0500
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:37:08 -0400
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

Subject: RE: Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?
   From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net>
   Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:35:56 -0400
     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
     <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

Hey, it was done with a smily-face, so it's OK.

Personally, I prefer Procomm for my DOS needs and either Hyterterm or
Tera Term for Windows needs.  
 I prefer procom when I have to use a PC.  When I don't have to use a
 PC a real VT100, VT320, VT340 or even a H19 tend to be very handy. 
 However,
  in the room here The VT320 or VT340 are allways at easy reach.  I
  find the
 "REAL(tm) TERMINAL" allways beats the PC imitation.

 Allison 
I guess I only raised it as an issue because in 'modern times' I have
found the terminal emulation features of Tera Term to be far superior to
anything else.   If you want to connect to a Linux or BSD box from a
Windows terminal and run modern curses-based applications like Midnight
Commander, Tera Term is great (in TTY or in Telnet or SSH modes). 
Still use the copy of procom freeware from back '91ish, it's was the best 
I'd seen for free and I find it works well. It was '91 that I finally broke
down and added a PCxt clone (leading edge model D) to the stable.

...
 Back in the BBS days with a modem, I discovered
Telemate and never
looked back at Procomm, although Procomm 2.4.2 was an excellent term for
it's time.  Procomm Plus sorta borrowed on 2.4.2's rep and I thought
never delivered much more.  And it wasn't shareware, to boot.  (it was
Bossware, the kind of software box you'd find on the shelf of 'the
suits.') 
;)  Back in the BBS days I use either a PDP-11/RT-11 with TERM or
the CP/M crate with TERMITE.  TERMITE was a homebrew package that did
terminal passthrough as the system had a real terminal and could also
do Xmodem transfers.  IT's big feature and whay it wasn't portable
is the modem input buffer and the console input buffers were interrupt 
driven large buffers so you could even type commands for the remote 
system while recieving stuff at 1200 baud.

Allison