[Coco] [Color Computer] Telnet program?

[Arthur Flexser]

If he doesn't want to get involved with OS-9, V-term (from Gimmesoft,
for the CoCo 3) might do the trick with its VT-100 emulation.  I
recall the author (Tim Kientzle or something like that?) telling me
that the published VT-100 specs were incomplete and/or wrong, and that
he had to do a lot of work to get it to be properly VT-100 compatible.
 He tested it on demos where the screen control codes create an
animated picture as a file is listed, like a glass of beer with
bubbles rising, until everything worked right.  So, I suspect that the
problem Gene had with his VT-100 program was due to the
implementation.  I used V-term for years, and it worked great with my
university's mainframe, including using the mainframe's Unix version
of Lynx to access the Web on a CoCo (in text mode only, of course).

Art

On 7/12/09, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 July 2009, KB wrote:
>  >How can I use it as a terminal? (I refuse to call my baby "dumb", even
>  > though i know its the correct term)
>
>  AIR, when I had to run the vt-220 against an IBM system that was controlling
>  our 7 meter network dish, you made sure the /t2 baud rate was correct, hooked
>  up a null modem wired rs-232 cable between them, fired up the coco3 into os9,
>  ran vt-220, and hit the enter key a couple of times, at which point the IBM
>  system asked you for your username and password.  Once logged in, I could do
>  that which I had perms to do, which in this case was to maintain the satellite
>  location tables and any moves/switches scheduled, the latter on a daily basis.
>
>  Eventually there were enough errors that it was prudent to get it a phone line
>  & let CBS do all that with their automatic dial-in to update it.  Now of
>  course its all buried in the digital data stream from them.
>
>  I tried to use the vt-100 program, but it did not use the correct escape
>  sequences & couldn't do the job, so when the vt-220 we had died and DEC wanted
>  about $1000 for a fresh one, the vt-100 to vt-220 conversion was done on a
>  crash basis & I had it working 100% in just a couple of days thanks to truly
>  excellent docs in the form of the manual for the vt-220 we had.  Fortunately,
>  those escape codes were easy to put into a pair of arrays, and auto-switch
>  between them based on the codes the IBM system sent.
>
>  Some systems AIR needed a couple of taps on the escape key to wake them up,
>  but the IBM I used it against wasn't one of them.  OTOH, its been close to 20
>  years since I did that, so CRS has set in. :(
>
>  >--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
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