From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aec726ef7aa8cbde X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-24 05:57:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!news1.radix.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Dickey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows Date: 24 Jun 2003 12:57:55 GMT Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: References: <17vJa.7569$eE.70461@nasal.pacific.net.au> <8QNJa.7669$eE.73220@nasal.pacific.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: saltmine.radix.net User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39659 Date: 2003-06-24T12:57:55+00:00 List-Id: Ross Higson 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 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. >> >> -- Thomas E. Dickey http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com