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: 2003-06-25 05:32:36 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: 25 Jun 2003 12:32:36 GMT Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: References: <17vJa.7569$eE.70461@nasal.pacific.net.au> <8QNJa.7669$eE.73220@nasal.pacific.net.au> <3c1f2fe3.0306241554.2022d78e@posting.google.com> 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:39723 Date: 2003-06-25T12:32:36+00:00 List-Id: Ross Higson wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote in message news:... >> > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com