Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows

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

Larry,

Thanks. If you are talking about the <ESC>[?2K (correct) versus 
<ESC>[2?K (incorrect) tests, my emulator fails that test as well. The 
MIT parser allows the flag character (in this case '?') to appear 
anywhere in the control sequence, so in situations like this both the 
control sequences are treated identically, whereas a real VT220 would 
ignorethe second case.  It's quite likely that the commercial emulator 
in question uses the same parser.

There's no easy fix to this problem without rewriting the MIT parser, 
which I currently have no plans to do. However, I guess there is a moral 
here - the parser is the only part of the emulator not written in Ada ! :)

Ross.

Larry Kilgallen wrote:

>As it happens, comp.os.vms the past few days has had a discussion
>of some flaws in a commercial terminal emulator.  There are a few tough
>cases mentioned that might be work considering as test scenarios.
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