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[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-21 10:56, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2022-09-20 20:40, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 9/20/22 14:30, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-09-20, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 9/20/22 13:49, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-09-18, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cut and paste works fine for moving small text files onto a
>>>>>> system, too.  But I usually just cut and paste it to the "$"
>>>>>> prompt.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I find C-Kermit's TRANSMIT command to be very useful for situations
>>>>> like this.
>>>>
>>>> I only use C-Kermit when I need to transfer files using the
>>>> Kermit Protocol.  Without any form of terminal emulation it
>>>> isn't really of much use.  MSKermit, however, has always had
>>>> really good DEC Terminal emulation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But that isn't how you run C-Kermit.
>>>
>>> You run C-Kermit from a shell (ie: bash) running within a terminal
>>> emulator (ie: xterm) and then use C-Kermit's CONNECT command to
>>> connect to the target system.
>>>
>>> Your terminal emulator provides the required terminal emulation.
>>
>> Xterm is a very poor DEC Emulator.  Not bad if you need
>> Tektronix but otherwise.....
> 
> Nonsense. xterm is the best DEC terminal emulator out there, possibly 
> excluding DEC's own products they sold once upon a time.
> 
> Tell me of one you think is better, and I'll tell you where it fails 
> while xterm works right. :-)

By the way. I should perhaps point out that people from DEC were 
involved in writing xterm. So it comes from the horses mouth, so to 
speak. And I've even fixed a bug in xterm related to escape sequence 
processing a number of years ago, so I had to go through the code some. 
It is actually rather nice code.

   Johnny