Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nissim <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>
To: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Christopher Croughton wrote:

> > real vt100 even if you don't mind those excellent things - when i try to
> > use smth like say,term90 from Norton Commander and elm on unix system or
> > irc client or smth like that i have to press ^L every few seconds to keep
> > something on the screen because emulation is buggy!
> 
> For straight serial ports I use Telix, and their VT100 emulation is pretty
> good, I haven't had any problems (modulo the double width and height, of
> course).  I've had problems with telnet in an xterm session on Unix, though.

How do you think Kermit stacks up?

> > I think replacing gwbasic and edlin with qbasic and edit was a _major_
> > mistake..
> 
> EDLIN should have been kept as an alternative, the same way as I keep Unix
> ed for emergencies.  I don't use BASIC enough to really notice the 
> difference (didn't gwbasic depend on the old IBM PC ROM BASIC, or was 
> that only in early versions?).

I got DOS 5, it had EDLIN, GWBASIC, QBASIC and that horrible QBASIC/EDIT
mongrel.. it wasn't the M$box one, it was distributed by Spring Circle or
something

My 2c..

...Nissim...
**** GUI? FUI! DOS prompt forever! ****
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