Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Ross Higson <rossh@zip.com.au> wrote:
> 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 

I'm intrigued (other than the obvious - blinking characters not implemented -
are there any bugs that I may have overlooked?)

> stacks up against the official
> DEC compatibility test ?.

That would be nice to know.  (I ran vttest against dxterm a few years ago,
and it mostly-agreed with vttest, though iirc, its vt300 emulation was
not complete).

> Ross.

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:

>>In article <17vJa.7569$eE.70461@nasal.pacific.net.au>, Ross Higson <rossh@zip.com.au> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>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.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>The DEC official compatibility test is not available to the public,

I tend to disregard the term "official" in this context.

>>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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