Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows

[Ross Higson <rossh@zip.com.au>]

It would be great if someone could take up Larry's suggestion, and email 
me any discrepencies they find.
I'll fix them in the next version.

I've been using Per Lindberg and Thomas E. Dickey's "vttest" program to 
test VT compatibility, but
there's a lot of  areas that vttest doesn't test (particularly for the 
VT420) - and also a lot of areas where
I cannot be absolutely sure my Windows version (actually a Cygwin 
version) of vttest behaves correctly.
Vttest relies partly on functionality provided by the Unix tty device 
(e.g. it uses stty to enable/disable host
echo, to perform inbound and outbound CR/LF translation etc).

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 
stacks up against the official
DEC compatibility test ?.

Ross.

Larry Kilgallen wrote:

>In article <17vJa.7569$eE.70461@nasal.pacific.net.au>, Ross Higson <rossh@zip.com.au> writes:
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>>In addition to providing simple "dumb" terminal emulation, the package
>>provides full emulation of DEC VT52/VT100/VT102 compatible terminals,
>>including double height and double width characters, smooth scrolling,
>>special graphics, display controls and national replacement character sets.
>>The emulator also implements a substantial subset of VT220/VT420 and ISO
>>6429 capabilities.
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>The DEC official compatibility test is not available to the public,
>but I would recommend someone who has a Windows machine should test
>this terminal emulator against a DEC Notes session, which for me has
>been the most severe test every time I have had to use a Windows machine.
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