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THE SETTINGS MENU -TERMINAL SETTINGS
The first s tep is to set the var i ous parameters within the
Setting menu. Select Terminal from the Settings window. The
window, s hown in figure 8.5, appear s on the Mac display. The
window shows the def a ult settings which will appear when the
new MacTerminal document is created. Any settings made
through the Settings windows will be saved al ong with the
MacTerminal document.
The first item in the window, Terminal, sets the type of
terminal which the Mac will emulate. Normally, all characters
se nt by any type of terminal are in the ASCII code. The s pecial
characters, how eve r, ma y not be sent by a certai n terminal
type . These characters might include commands sent using the
Command , Option, Enter, Tab, or Shift keys. VTIOOT,. nor-
mally d ea ls with all of the se characters. Teletype (TTY) emula-
tion , on the other hand , deals in few, if any, of these. The
proper c hoic e for your appl i ca tion of MacTerminal de pends
solely upon the requirements and capabilities of the remote computer.
The next se tting , Compatibility, determin es the other
typ es of te rminal s with which the Mac will communicate.
Many of the various data coding format s are compatible with
those termin al formats which the Mac can emu l ate. The Amer-
ican National Standards Ins titute (ANSI) data format and the
VT52T,. format are both compatible with the VTlOO format.
That is, when MacTerminal is set for VTlOO emulation, the
Mac can communicate with a computer which r ecog nizes th e
VT lOO , VT52 , or ANS I format. The other options with the
Termina l item h ave di fferent compatibilities. The compatibil i-
ties
which are not availab le in each case will be dimmed when
th at option is selected.