Date   : Thu, 21 Mar 1991 02:38:20 GMT
From   : ogicse!adaptive!asi.com!casey@decwrl.dec.com (Casey Bahr)
Subject: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation

Sorry if this belongs in the FAQ file.

I'm trying to use a modem communications program on my Kaypro 10.
It appears to be a derivative of MDM730 (sic?).  The on-line
documentation, however, doesn't give me a clue as to what type of
terminal it's emulating, which is where I'm having trouble.  Somewhere
else in other documentation I remember seeing that the Kaypro emulates
a Lear-Siegler adm3a, so that's how I've tried setting the termcap
on the Unix (Sun) machine I'm trying to connect to.  Everything
except vi seems to be working ok (TERM and TERMCAP in my environment 
look right for an adm3a).  In vi I get a garbled screen that
makes editing pretty difficult.  I remember long ago using a Kaypro II
and I think the same comm. pgm., but I don't remember how I got around
this problem.

I'm pretty illiterate in this area, so I'm hoping someone in this
group can enlighten me or provide some heuristics to getting the
termcap set properly.  Or maybe direct me to a different comm. package.
I do have a printed document for SUPRTERM, which says it emulates an
adm3a, but I can't find that software on any of my disks.

Thanks in advance,


Casey Bahr  
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