[Coco] SuperComm and DW4 virtual modems

[Joel Ewy]

On 03/02/2013 09:54 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>> Good luck!  What you want to do is quite doable but will probably take
>>> a little experimenting.
>> Thanks, Aaron.  I've got it working more or less.  SuperComm isn't doing a
>> stellar job of replicating what I see in an xterm with elinks or links2 or
>> w3m, but it is putting something reasonable up on the screen.  I think what
>> you said about VT100 emulation might be the clue I need.  SuperComm calls it
>> ANSI, but maybe that means something different to SuperComm than it does to
>> Ubuntu.  I think I'm going to try setting term=vt100 and see if that gets
>> better results.  It's also interesting to try to figure out what keys to use
>> on the CoCo 3's keyboard to do what I want it to do.
>>
> Most linuxes have quite a few variations on vt100 and ansi (which are
> sort of the same, at least on the basic stuff).  vt100a, vt102, vt52,
> vt100b etc.  If you find one that works particularly well let me know
> and I'll add it to the docs.

Well, I installed a program called vttest, at which SuperComm is failing 
pretty spectacularly.  I'm trying to remember if there were other OS-9 
terminal emulators back in the day that might have done a better job at 
pretending to be a vt100 or ANSI terminal...

JCE

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