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Grex Info Item 79: Internet? vt320? Smartcom? Huh?
Entered by carl on Sun Nov 21 13:52:09 UTC 1993:

Help!  I've got Smartcom for Windows in vt320 mode, and it works for a 
lot of the sites on the Internet.  Unfortunately, I've had several
experiences like the following:

  You Rang?  telnet 35.8.2.61
  Trying 35.8.2.61 ...
  Connected to 35.8.2.61.
  Escape character is '^]'.
 
 
  AIX telnet (burrow.cl.msu.edu)
 
 
  Type   gopher   to log in
 
  To report problems with this system send mail to   gopher@gopher.msu.edu
 
  login: gopher
  Your terminal type is currently set to [ vt320 ]
  I don't understand your terminal type
  Connection closed by foreign host.
  You Rang?


Does anyone have any suggestions, recommendations?
Is there anyone that has Smartcom that can log in at 35.8.2.61?

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by danr on Sun Nov 21 15:20:01 1993:

I just tried it using vt100 emulation and it worked fine for me.

#2 of 7 by carl on Sun Nov 21 20:15:07 1993:

I tried switching to vt100 and it still gave the same message about vt320.
I'm already wondering if I restarted the software after changing the term
setting...  I'll give it another try.

#3 of 7 by popcorn on Mon Nov 22 02:43:50 1993:

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#4 of 7 by remmers on Mon Nov 22 09:00:08 1993:

Not all.  There are gopher clients for DOS, Macs, X Windows, etc.
In principle one could write a gopher client with any kind of
user interface one wanted.

#5 of 7 by carl on Mon Nov 22 21:56:38 1993:

Rebooting the software made the difference.  I'm now using vt102 for
everything.  BTW, several systems (gopher-blue included) recognized
and accepted vt320.

#6 of 7 by danr on Tue Nov 23 12:25:03 1993:

Is there any advantage to using vt320?

#7 of 7 by remmers on Tue Nov 23 18:56:34 1993:

Not over VT102, for standard Unix stuff.  There *is* an advantage
to using vt102 over vt100, though -- a vt102 can do some kinds of
screen updating more efficiently than a vt100, and some of the
editors (vi, emacs) take advantage of it.

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