Re: Stupid Questions 101

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Soenke Behrens (sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: minuet@indy.net (Cold Fusion) wrote:

: >Dumb question #2: Is there a better comm program than Proterm for 
: >internetting, maybe something that lets you choose different colors and 
: >fonts while still supporting ZMODEM transfers and VT-100 emulation?

: Hmm. I know ANSITerm can do colour, but I do not know whether its
: VT100 is also coloured. Spectrum is colourful, but not in VT-100 mode,
: alas.

Answer:  ANSITerm is *beautiful* as a VT-100 emulator.  Supports
underlining and uses colors to show boldface.  It's actually possible to
use Lynx and see what it is you're trying to do.  Works great for me. 
It's available from Parkhurst Micro Products, but I don't have any further
details on that since I bought my copy used.  But I'm pretty sure I've
seen Paul post on c.s.a2, so if he'd be so kind as to speak up... 8-)

: >Dumb question #4: Is there an app that will let you UUDECODE messages off 
: >the net?

: Try GSCII+ NDA, or sscii. They both handle BinSCII as well as uuencode
: (last I looked, anyway).

There is also a UUDECODE utility available from the usual FTP sites. 
Someone from the MS-DOS world made the error of sending me a UUENCODEd
file (hasn't the rest of the world ever heard of BINSCII? 8-) ).  And,
yeah, I think GSCII+ does it too.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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