Re: Ada Terminal Emulator for Windows

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

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

I should update the "2.7" part, but typically just use the patch date
for vttest.  That's currently 20030301.

> 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

This looks more like a problem with vttest running on Cygwin.
(There are scattered, but persistent bugs in its terminal support).

There is one gotcha to watch out for with test 1 (xterm's line-wrap feature
is set by some people, making a glitch in the box drawn in test 1).


> 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.

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