Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows

[rossh@zip.com.au (Ross Higson)]

Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote in message news:<bd9hsj$k8h$1@news1.radix.net>...

> > I've compared the terminal emulator against xterm, and (apart from a few 
> > cases where xterm itself
> > fails the vttest) the results are identical. Does anyone know how xterm 
> 
> I'm intrigued (other than the obvious - blinking characters not implemented -
> are there any bugs that I may have overlooked?)
> 

One instance is that when running vttest (version 2.7) under a Cygwin
xterm (version XFree864.2.0(165)), I see the following output halfway
through test 1:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Test of cursor-control characters inside ESC sequences.
Below should be four identical lines:

A B C D E F G H I
A B C D E F G H I
16CI
A 
  AB 
     AC 
        AD 
           AE 
              AF 
                 AG 
                    AH 
                       AI 
                          A

Push <RETURN>
--------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe this is a peculiarity of Cygwin. If I recall any others I'll
post them.

By the way, I've updated the terminal emulator package to include a
simple "comms" wrapper program that allows a PC to be more easily used
as a serial terminal. Hopefully, this will encourage someone to to do
a side-by-side comparison with a real terminal.

Ross.