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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: bad vt102/vt220 termcap entry in FreeBSD 2.1? Date: 7 Oct 1996 20:59:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <53bqum$fgs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <rreiner.844306769@nexus.yorku.ca> <538mrs$b9d@symiserver2.symantec.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > There is an excellent vt100 testing utility floating around called > vttest or some such that has a whole procedure for spitting out > serieses of VT100 codes to test various terminal emulators. While i basically agree with you regarding the poor quality of many vt100 (-alike) emulators, it's also funny to note that a True DEC VT320 doesn't pass this test suite either. ;-) (Btw., vttest is in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/vttest/.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)