Sync serial bridging over Ethernet, was Re: [HECnet] Multi-floor household (DECnet) routing help needed

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-21 18:06, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On 21 Jan 2013, at 09:16, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:

Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:

Dave McGuire wrote: >       I've heard it a lot.   It's just the Windows
people.   "Terminal > programs are EXPENSIVE!"   No.   Idiots.   Go get a
grownup OS and leave > Windows for the videogames.

Off the top of my head, I can name at least two dozen easy-to-install
free terminal emulators for Windows.   There are probably a great many
more than that.

Is PuTTY not available for WEENDOZE???

On Mac OS X and Linux, it does a failrly reasonable job of digesting the
VT200 series escape sequences and even does DECSWL and DECDHL correctly.

If you want to test your emulator, telnet to great-escape.tmesis.com and
log in with VTTEST -- no password.   It's a captive account that runs the
VTTEST suite.

I was absolutely surprised at how well Mac OS X's Terminal.app handled that test.

And I identified the first two bugs within 30 seconds of trying it.
1) It identifies itself as a VT100, although it's clearly more capable than that. (And I wonder how it actually deals with the printer port it claims it have...)
2) A DECCOLM should clear the screen, even if the width don't change.

I'm sure I would find more if I tried. I don't use the terminal app in general. xterm works so much better if you want something VT220 like.

	Johnny

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