arutherf@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford) (11/29/90)
A couple of days back, someone posted to the net regarding an interactive vt100 compatibility tester, and claimed this could be found at your local archiver. Unfortunatly, I have lost the article, and now have need of this tester, and can't find the program anywhere. Can someone please email me the address and directory of an archiver that has this program? Thanks, Andrew. -- Andrew Rutherford arutherf@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au +61 8 228 4782 Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because OCT 31 == DEC 25 !
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (11/29/90)
arutherf@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
in <1946@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> writes:
A couple of days back, someone posted to the net regarding an
interactive vt100 compatibility tester, and claimed this could be
found at your local archiver. Unfortunatly, I have lost the article,
and now have need of this tester, and can't find the program anywhere.
Can someone please email me the address and directory of an archiver
that has this program?
Sorry, that was my original posting and I neglected to indicate where the
test was to be found (since its mention was only incidental to the gist of
the message thread).
Enclosed is a copy of one of my postings in this regards. The program's
name is "vttest" and can also be found, as I discovered recently, at the
archive site wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (IP 26.2.0.74).
And, note, it's also on a "Fish Disk". Sheesh, the nerve of some people who
recently claimed the "old" AmigaLibDisks should be tossed out with the
fishwrap (no pun intended :-). An archive is an archive is an archive, and
should be preserved FOREVER. Period. What would you think of the Library
of Congress tossing out the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution
simply because they're old and have been "amended"? Double sheesh.
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
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Subject: Per Lindberg VT100 Validation Suite
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Many have asked me how they could acquire the "Per Lindberg VT100 Validation
Suite" test program I mentioned in a posting pertaining to something else. Due
to an email backlog, I'm presently unable to answer personally, hence this
net posting to unix-pc.general and comp.sys.att.
If you have uucp and/or FTP access to uunet.uu.net:
/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume7/vttest:
total 35
-r--r--r-- 1 rsalz 8824 Dec 1 1986 part1.Z
-r--r--r-- 1 rsalz 26029 Dec 1 1986 part2.Z
If you have uucp and/or FTP access to tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (aka osu-cis):
comp.sources.unix/Volume07:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bob 9016 Sep 2 1986 vttest.1.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 bob 26192 Sep 2 1986 vttest.2.Z
If you have access to the Fred Fish Freely Redistributable Software Library
for the Amiga:
This is disk 35 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library.
Vttest Program to test compatibility of vt100-compatible
terminals and terminal emulators. Requires the
resources of a Unix system to test an Amiga hosted
vt100 emulator. (I haven't yet found one that even
comes close to passing this test!).
Author: Per Lindberg
If you have access to any other archive site of comp.sources.unix (or the
older mod.sources), you can also easily find it there.
And, finally, here is the header from the original posting by Rich $alz to
mod.sources as I grabbed it over 3 years ago:
Article 388 of mod.sources:
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Newsgroups: mod.sources
Subject: v07i016: Test VT100 features, Part01/02
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Mod.sources: Volume 7, Issue 16
Archive-name: vttest/Part01
[ See my comments at the beginning of the README. -r$ ]
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
-------------------- end enclosed material --------------------martens@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) (12/01/90)
In article <36336@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: [ ... ] >fishwrap (no pun intended :-). An archive is an archive is an archive, and >should be preserved FOREVER. Period. What would you think of the Library >of Congress tossing out the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution >simply because they're old and have been "amended"? Double sheesh. [ ... ] Actually, didn't the state of Pennsylvania recently admit to misplacing an original, hand written copy og the Bill of Rights? -- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone" -- Hobbes.