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<body class='hmmessage'>Thanks Villy,<BR>
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I'm looking for an emulator that supports 8 bit mode; all the free ones I found support only 7bit control characters. But Putty looks good, and I'm sure I can hack the source code to make it do 8 bit controls.<BR>
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Regards. Peter <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:47:24 -0700<BR>> From: Villy.Madsen@shaw.ca<BR>> To: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com; simh@trailing-edge.com; janoschevic@googlemail.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Simh] Fwd: VT320 Terminal emulator for VMS?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> I am using IVT and it does a credible VT220 emulation<BR>> <BR>> I use PUTTY - but I am not even sure that it is a full VT220 emulation.<BR>> <BR>> I am not aware of any freeware VT-3xx emulation. The big difference AFAIR was<BR>> the block mode <BR>> feature (one that we made extensive use of in an application that i architected<BR>> back in the early 80's).<BR>> <BR>> It was very handy to be able to snapshot the screen when a user had a problem.<BR>> User would hit a f key,<BR>> the app would dump the screen to the log file, prompt the user for a description<BR>> of the problem, and cut a trouble ticket....<BR>> <BR>> This was in 1981 or there abouts... Boy were we good!! (We used the VT320s<BR>> because they gave us that dump feature, it was the only reason that we bought<BR>> them - at about twice the price of a 220.... Worth 10x or more of the extra<BR>> that we paid!!)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Villy<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Simh mailing list<BR>> Simh@trailing-edge.com<BR>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh<BR><BR><br /><hr />Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. <a href='http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk' target='_new'>Pimp My Live!</a></body>
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