Re: Terminal Emulation

[mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mike LaMorte)]

Joshua P. Onge (jponge@mtu.edu) wrote:
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: Hi all,

: OK, Here's what I wanna do.  I have a IIc at Home, and a Unix account on a
: Sun at school.  I want to use the IIc to dial in to the sun for simple
: text based computing.  I have two questions: 

: 1) Since all I'm going to be doing is transferring text data, do I need a
: very fast modem.  Am I going to see a substantial difference between say a
: 300 baud modem and a 14,400 baud modem.  Can a IIc even handle a 14,400 or
: a 9,600 baud connection?

Will you notice a difference between 300 and 14.4? ah, in a word, YES.
You're looking at a virtual 5 times speed increase. 300 baud? ye gads,
man, it's rare to find anyone using 1200, and the numbers of people with
2400s are dwindling fast. Yes, the //c can handle a 9600 connection. 14.4
is iffy, unless you have the right cable and even then it doesn't work
well. Stick to 9600 with LAP-M, v.42 and v.42bis, and you'll get reliable
connects every time. 

: 2) What Software should I use.  I guess I want to emulate a VT220 or
: something (Actually I have no idea what that means).  Will this Proterm
: program I here about work.  If so where can I get.  (A decent freeware or
: shareware program would be preffered, as I do not want to spend a lot of
: money on this.)

ProTERM is all you'll ever need. Right now, I'm running a //c+ with
ProTERM 3.1, and connecting just fine. There's a lot of emulators in the
software, but the best one to pick is VT-100. That's a standard, pretty
much. What does it mean? Digital Equipment Corp makes workstations
numbered like VT-52, VT-100, VT-420, VT-3000, etc. All this means is that
ProTERM (or whatever software you're using) takes commands that are sent
in VT-100 format, and translates them into something that your //c can
understand.

If you have any other questions or need any other help, feel free to
e-mail and ask.

Mike