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Stanislav Borutsky

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Apr 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/12/98
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I've installed MiNT on Atari ST and connected it to my Linux PC box
via ppp. But MiNT has no vt100 terminal emulation.
I'd like to do telnet from Atari having vt100 terminal.
I've tried a bunch of software - minicom, toswin, vt100emul - but
none of them does the work. Can anybody help me ?
Thank you in advance.

John Whalley

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Apr 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/12/98
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The best telnet client I've found for VT100 emulation is Prof.
Boris Cahan's TVT102, available from the STiK software pages at:

http://www.flinny.demon.co.uk

This is for STiK/STinG but may well work OK with MiNTnet if you
install GlueSTiK, which lets you use STiK/STinG clients with MiNTnet.
It's available from the author's pages at:

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dsb/

TVT102 is the only Atari telnet client that handles graphics
characters (boxes and lines etc) properly IME. The only other way I
know of getting these to work properly is to use the MiNTnet telnet
under X, but that means installing all of X just to get a decent
terminal emulation. Far easier to use STinG or GlueSTiK!

HTH
John

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Robert Poggioli

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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I believe that there are two programs which offer vt100 emulation
under MiNTnet: SCREEN (which is available at the UMich Atari Archive
site) and a vt100 version of TOSWIN (search for "tw100").

Jo Even Skarstein

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Apr 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/15/98
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John Whalley <ne...@whalley.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> TVT102 is the only Atari telnet client that handles graphics
> characters (boxes and lines etc) properly IME. The only other way I
> know of getting these to work properly is to use the MiNTnet telnet
> under X, but that means installing all of X just to get a decent
> terminal emulation. Far easier to use STinG or GlueSTiK!

The normal BSD-telnet for MiNT/MiNTnet works fine with graphics and
colours in TosWin2.

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John Whalley

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Apr 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/16/98
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on Wed 15-04-98 20:11 Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

>The normal BSD-telnet for MiNT/MiNTnet works fine with graphics and
>colours in TosWin2.

Is TosWin2 the one with VT100 emulation? I tried an early version and
couldn't get it to run at all. Glad to know it works now, though I
stopped using MiNTnet some time ago. It would be the best/most obvious
option for someone with MiNtnet up and running in that case.

Cheers,

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