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#DEC VT340 terminal.

    10-Sep-89 13:29:29
Sb: #65097-#DEC VT340 terminal.
Fm: RON TROY 76064,252
To: Larry Rosenman 73547,3201
Larry, there has been a noticable demand for VT240 (but not like for a good wp package, for instance) and demand for the 340 will increase (its been out about a year and half), and the sequences are well documented, but the emulation will not be super easy – it would make some sense to upgrade something like VLT which is already a good part of the way there, but that doesn't seem to be happening. And if a developer who does not use the 340 develops the emulation, it probably won't be worth the price of the disk, as I've seen on more then one occasion. To give you an idea of what I mean, in one VT100/102 emulator, the developer still can't understand why I need a print screen key (to do an ansi text/graphics dump to the printer, which should be a very simple task). And that's nearly 4 years after the first version of this one emulator was released. Ron