[Coco] [Color Computer] Telnet program?

[Arthur Flexser]

I have no idea what the current status of V-term is.  Tim Kientzle
(formerly Tim Koonce) does show up in a web search with some pretty
current information, so perhaps he could be contacted to answer this
question.

Art

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Gene Heskett<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 July 2009, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>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.
>
> Memory says the vt-100 I started with was correctly coded, but as they added
> new esc sequences, they ran out of 2 key combo's, so a 3 key sequence was then
> done in the vt-220's.  The service manual I was working from had both sets of
> tables in it because you could, in the DEC vt-220, actually turn the 220 stuff
> off.  Whoever wrote the vt-100, and it seems like I recall the name Marquette
> on its sign-on screen, did I believe do it right, at least according to DEC.
>
> It would not be the first time that a published spec was wrong, just so they
> could point at broken competition & say 'you shoulda bought a DEC, ours works'
>
>>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).
>
> I never had a copy of it, Art.  What is its status today?
>
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