On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:46, Fox wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2005 21:18, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi, at http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ > > terminal-23apr2005.zip and terminal-rom.tar.gz > > respectively, you can find updated versions of my small > > TERMINAL. Features: 8088/8086 compatible, UPXed to less > > than 4 kilobytes, built-in optimized ANSI/VT100 handling. > > Well.... > What is it for? I tried to guess by launching the program (both term.bat > and terminal.com) but can't find its function. Terminal - is it meaning > that I could access another computer trough the RS232 with that?
ANSI/VT100 emulation - that means it can give you an account on another computer, a multiuser computer, by pretending to be a "dumb terminal" - the DEC VT series were a set of terminals for their midrange PDPs and VAXes. > > Fox > <snip> Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
