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Good Terminal Emulator Program for Laser 128



Hello, fellow stuck-with-Apple-II'ers :)

I have a Laser 128 (That's an Apple IIc/e clone), with 128K (of course) of
memory, two 5 1/4" drives, 80 column/color support, and an external 2400
baud Supra Modem connected to (I believe) a serial port. I am currently
using a terminal program called Ascii Express, copywrite 1984 United
Software Industries. While this has been an acceptable program to date, it
doesn't emulate anything more complex than an ADM3A terminal, and I would
like to be able to use some UNIX programs that require a termcap entry with
CS or AL/DL capacities. (This would also speed up most other programs, like
JOVE, that I use, be allowing them to scroll without redrawing the whole
screen.) 

	A VT-100, of course, has the required power, so what this probably
boils down to is that I am looking for a terminal program that can emulate a
vt-100, or something better.  I would also like, of course, to be able to
use highlighting and underlining, if a program could provide such
capacities, and if it does full ANSI color support, I won't complain ;-) .
Auto-dialing and/or scripting would also be quite nice. But the major thing
I'm looking for is a vanilla vt-100 emulator. 

	So, can anyone recommend a good telecommunications program to me?
I'm not adverse to buying one (under, say, $200), but if anyone knows of a
good **BUG-FREE** PD/shareware one, that would be nice, too. However, it
should be noted that just about the only utilies I have for the computer are
Copy II+, ProDos Basic, and a disk labeled "AppleSoft Sampler" which brings
up a startup screen and then crashs when you push return... (which the BASIC
error Illegal quantity in line 625), so don't just say "Get the file
foo.qaz.req.bsq.pwd.tar.Z and use it" - tell me how to get the program out
of it, please! (Yes, Ascii Express does Xmodem.) I'm great at UNIX, but
lousy at AppleII... (So you don't have to tell me how to do anon. FTP, or
untar, or uncompress...)

	I don't read the newsgroup, so mail responses to this address are
preferred. Thanks for any advice.

-Ian Barkley
 ianb@netcom.com
 ianb@cea.berkeley.edu