[184] in resnet
Comet 3.0.7 Telnet Client available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin B. Thomas)
Wed Feb 9 07:44:49 1994
From: benjy@ai.mit.edu (Benjamin B. Thomas)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 07:44:10 EST
To: resnet@MIT.EDU
I found this on comp.sys.mac.announce. Since I don't have I Mac, I
haven't had a chance to check it out and see how it compares to the
software the resnet folks provide. Those of you who are more
adverturous may want to play with it and post your findings.
Cheers,
benjy
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Comet 3.0, The Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator
Comet 3.0.7 is the latest version of Comet, available from
FTP.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
in directory
/pub/mac/comm/CometExternal
Comet, the Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator, may be freely used
as long as the restrictions in the copyright notice in the "About
Comet..." menu item are observed.
UPGRADE/INSTALLATION NOTE: To ensure that keyboard mapping works
correctly, you need to copy the "Comet keyboard-No Diacritics"
keyboard layout into your System. This resource has changed in
order to avoid a bug which sometimes occurs when Comet is used in
conjunction with Word and Excel.
Comet is a full-featured Macintosh Terminal Emulator offering up to
16 windows with fast color emulations of the Heath H19, Digital VT102,
or IBM 3278-{2,3,4,5} in 9, 12, 16, 24, and 36 point font sizes.
Serial and MacTCP connections are supported (3270 emulation is available
over MacTCP only; a similar ASCII interface is supported with a Heath-19
terminal emulation through the IBM 7171). As of yet the Comm Toolbox is
not supported.
Comet supports macros and macro recording.
File transfer support is somewhat limited. Comet functions with standard
UNIX vt102 termcaps and performs well with VMS on Digital mainframes also.
The IBM emulations specifically support the extended character set
used by the NOTIS library card catalog system;
The most current version of Comet is available on FTP.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
in the directory
"/pub/mac/comm/"
The complete Comet package (including documentation and the IBM host file
transfer and 7171 support files) is available in
"/pub/mac/comm/cometExternal/"
The most current development version is available in
"/pub/mac/comm/test/"
--
Kevin Eric Saunders (a/k/a bonze blayk!!), CometMonger
Cornell Information Technologies/Network Resources
Internet: kes1@cornell.edu Phone: 607-255-0525
Mail: B52A Caldwell Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853
