dank@moc.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) (12/04/89)
A month ago, I asked about VT100 emulators. I found quite a few of them; here's a list of them. Name Environment Source ---------------------------------------- vttool any terminal Ftp from sun-sources at titan.rice.edu NCSA teltool many Ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu TE100/vt100tool sunview? Offered for sale by Sun Microsystems xterm X X Window System distribution crttool sunview To be published in comp.sources.sun, but can be requested from arizona!olson@modular.edu Here's a matrix of features supported by the various emulators I have tried: vttool teltool crttool --------------------------------------- VT200? no no yes Tektronix 4104? no yes no hardcopy? no yes no 132 columns? sorta yes yes graphic chars? sorta sorta yes double-wide/hi? no no? yes scrollback? no yes no Font size ctrl? no no yes Vttool was written to provide minimal VT100 functionality in the simplest, most portable possible way. If you aren't running a windowing system, this is for you. It also comes with a wrapper that runs under Sunview which provides programmable onscreen buttons, but this isn't nearly as important as the basic VT100 stuff. NCSA Teltool was written to provide Telnet remote login services combined with VT102 and Tektronix emulation. It runs on many platforms. It's kinda overkill if all you need is a VT100 emulator, but it works. The Sunview implementation is a little fragile. Crttool was written by Jon Olsen to provide a VT200 emulator that runs under Sunview. Because of its narrow focus, it is the nicest of the lot, IMHO. This is the one I use now. I have not seen nor tried xterm nor TE100. Thanks to everybody who responded, you really helped me out. - Dan Kegel
grimesg@sj.ate.slb.com (George Grimes) (12/24/89)
In article <3774@brazos.Rice.edu> dank@moc.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes: >crttool sunview To be published in comp.sources.sun, > but can be requested from > arizona!olson@modular.edu ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Are you sure about that address? I tried to request a copy and my mail bounced. It seemed to barf on modular.edu as near a I could tell. George P.S. If I can't get it from Jon Olson, can I get it from you? [[Ed's Note: by carefully studying the UUCP tables for Arizona, it is obvious that these two are backwards. I'd wager that the correct address is modular!olson@arizona.edu]]