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From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: VT100 Term Programs??
Date: 19 May 1994 23:42:27 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: michaelv@iastate.edu's message of 19 May 94 16:22:09 GMT

In article <michaelv.769364529@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

   >support vt100 emulation for some systems I call and some things like IRC on
   >the internet.  I dont have X installed right now so seyon is not an option.

   Kermit works just great for me.

He did say "with vt100 support"

Answer: Without X, there really isn't much of anything.  The best bet
would be to run the pcvt console driver out of /usr/ports/util/pcvt
(full instructions for installation are there) and use its VT220
superset emulation directly.

					Jordan