Re: Terminal Emulation rates

["Igor" <igor.chiandetti@retro-it.org>]

Alistair J Ross wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> 	Finally I have managed to get a working piece of terminal emulation
> software, it's only taken me 3 weeks! I actually got both Modem MGR
> and Kermit working in the same day. Unfortunately, I can't seem to
> set either up in order to remember their default configuration (by
> use of their install programs), but that is a small aside.
> 

do you refer to the various "set" commands? In that case you can create
a kermit.init text file and edit there all your options (I have to
check out)

> I found Modem MGR to be a bit clunky, so I stuck with Kermit in the
> end. I don't need it for file transfer (well maybe very
> occasionally), so this shouldn't be an issue. I'm using it to log
> into agetty which is listening on ttyS1 on my linux box. It worked
> tonight as of 19:00 hours. After a bit of tweaking, I managed to get
> full vt100 mode working. Screen-refreshing, true cursor-key movement.
> I've surfed the net and read my emails in 80-column mode and all is
> good.
>

I also find kermit as the best program to do terminal emulation...
 
> Almost all of my work in unix is done at the prompt, so I may find
> myself using my apple ii exclusively for almost all of my work,
> should this work out!
> 

it's nice as you don't have any fan or hard-disk noise!

> 
> Is my baud rate too high, and causing errors? I'm using 19200 for my
> transfer rate, I've played around with 9600 bps but I don't really
> wanna go lower. Any ideas anyone?
> 

I also had some problems but they disappeared choosing a driver which
doesn't care about hardware handshake. But I haven't used it faster
then 9600, while using kermit-80 on the same Apple I can't go faster
then 320! (I don't know why).


-- 
Igor

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