summary on vt100 terminal emulators

From: Claude.P.Cantin@nrc.ca
Date: Fri May 18 1990 - 16:24:53 CDT


 
Thank you to all who responded to my request concerning a public domain
vt100 terminal emulator to access VAXes through the Ethernet...
 
Here is a short summary of responses I got...
 
Special thanks to those at the end...
 
          Claude Cantin (CANTIN@NRCVM01.BITNET)
 
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     We have tried a few PD VT100 emulators. VTTool is pretty good, providing
VT keypad functions through mouse clicks. I prefer crttool, which emulates
almost all of the VT220 functions, including double-high and double-wide chars.,
different font sizes and colors, 132-columns, and uses the Sun-3 (I think) and
Sun-4 keypad for emulation. Both of these run under Sunview, by the way.
 
I would suggest you fetch "screen" from the comp.sources.unix archives;
it does good vt100 and ansi emulation, and in addition will allow you to
keep several sessions around.
 
 
Send HELP to archive-server@rice.edu if you don't know how to get it.
 
The Rice archives (titan.tice.edu) has two: vttool and crttool. Get
crttool. It's quite faithful to the VT100 -- even has double high chars!
 
Try 'crttool' from titan.rice.edu:/pub/sun-source . It seems fine for
emulating vtxxx terminals under suntools.
 
 
screen - it's basically vt100, although its main purpose in life is
to allow you multiple virtual terminals on any ASCII tube...
 
From: Jean-Francois Lamy <lamy@cs.utoronto.ca>
From: "Paul B. Davidson" <elmo@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
From: rrb@math.wayne.edu (Robert Bruner)
From: davee@kurgen.mitre.org (Dave Edwards)
From: martin@molndal.ericsson.se
From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
From: Randy Holt <randy@everest.den.mmc.com>
From: davee@kurgen.mitre.org (Dave Edwards)
From: George Young <young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
From: selig@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov
Frbot mtie@mathcs.carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
From: heiser@tdw511.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Sun Workstation Support)
From: tran@EBay.Sun.COM (Tony Tran)
From: barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
From: kevin@Corp.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})



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