Date   : Sat, 13 Apr 1991 16:51:54 GMT
From   : csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Essentials

calvinc@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Calvin Cheng) writes:

> Well I'm interested in the following:
> 
> 1)   A terminal program that provides for VT100 emulation.

QTERM42G.LBR will be the file you're looking for.  It provides
decent VT100 emulation.  If you're running CP/M on an Apple II
series with the ORIGINAL SoftCard, you'll find a driver that I
wrote myself for that system.

> 3)   A decent screen-oriented text editor.

Try ZDE16.LBR.

> The problem with the Apple /// is that it is next to impossible to find
> support for it.  It is therefore important that the programs are fairly
> machine independent (not even the Apple II ones will help).  Preferably, if
> necessary, there's a simple means for me to hack up some connection with
> standard Apple /// SOS device drivers.

If I only had the address for it, Sun Remarketing in Utah is an
excellent place to start as they specialized in the "orphaned"
Apple systems.

> I also notice a lot of .?Z? files and .LBR files.  Where do I get the
> files to extract these?

*.?Z? are "crunched" files.  You use either UNCRUNCH or UNCRLZH
(whichever will work; if at all possible, go with UNCRLZH because
it handles *.?Q? ("squeezed") and *.?Y? (LZH-compressed files)
.LBR files are analogous to *.ZIP, *.LZH, et al in the IBM
world, and Binary II files in the Apple II world.  For those, you
would use NULU, but I prefer LT29.COM because it not only types
files inside of a library, it also decompresses and extracts
files.  You don't have to worry about cluttering your drive with
secondary compressed files like you would if you were using NULU
which handles *.?Q? files only.

> Thanx
> Calvin Cheng

Anytime