Re: Best Terminal Software

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Dec3.121240.1067@lrc.edu>, rheinze@lrc.edu writes...
> 
> Which would be better for me ProTerm or ANSITerm?

    Depends on where your interests lie.  I need something that has
excellent VT-100 emulation.  Because of the inherent text display
limitations, Proterm can't distinguish VT-100 bold, underline, inverse
or double-sized characters while ANSITerm can (because it uses the SHR
screen).  Same goes for colour ANSI graphics.  Proterm has to emulate
ANSI graphics with Mousetext (does a pretty good job in most cases) but
it can't handle colour at all.  An accelerator is highly recommended for
ANSITerm because of its graphic nature.

    All in all, I prefer ANSITerm 2.1 to Proterm 3.0 (haven't bothered
upgrading to 3.1 since someone is buying my copy of Proterm).  Bigger
editor, nice scripting language, best VT-100 emulation and all-around
nice program.  It's not quite as expensive as Proterm either.  In any
case, both are light years ahead of Mousetalk, so you can't lose either
way.
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