jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) (05/09/89)
sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com (Chris Sterritt) writes: > SO, is there a package (ideally, of course, public-domain) that does good > vt100 emulation? Where can we get it? I know of no good PD vt100 package for Suns, but a fair one is vttool, which was posted to sun-spots in March of 1988. vttool consists of 2 parts, a Sunview window with programmable "keypad" in a subwindow and a termcap based vt100 emulator that runs in a tty subwindow. The latter piece, vtem, provides output emulation of vt100 escape sequences, translating them into the native display commands of whatever terminal it is running on. The vtem distributed with vttool does not do a good job of vt100 emulation. I recently rewrote it to do a much better job, e.g. to support terminal inquiries so SET TERM/INQ on our VMS machines would work and not to get confused when put into 132 column mode. I have uploaded vtem.shar to titan.rice.edu as ~ftp/incoming/vtem.shar. Perhaps WNL would be so good as to include it in the sun-spots source archives (or tell me the protocol for source submissions)?
dente%man.ee.els@ukacrl.BITNET (Colin Dente) (05/09/89)
sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com (Chris Sterritt) writes: >SO, is there a package (ideally, of course, public-domain) that does good >vt100 emulation? Where can we get it? PLEASE post replies as well - I would love to get hold of a vt100 emulator for Sun (at the moment I have to use a Zenith hooked up to a terminal line if I want to use a VAX from my Sun). Colin Colin Dente | JANET: dente@uk.ac.man.ee.els Dept. of Electrical Engineering | ARPA: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk University of Manchester | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!man.ee.els!dente England | NB. these will work as of 28/4/89
david@sun.com (David L. Kensiski 929-8844) (05/11/89)
There are two vt100 packages that come to mind immediately. One I've used and am somewhat familiar with, the other I've just heard about. The one I've used is Sun's vt100tool. It seems to perform reliable vt100 emulation (although I've never tried it on a Vax, lucky me) and does allow you to map the vt100 PF and numeric keys to the Sun keyboard. Naturally, you would contact your favorite Sun rep for it. The other package is a PD program available from the Rice University archive sun-source. It is called vttool, but that's about all I know about it. The sun-source index lists it: 52602 Mar 22 1988 vttool.shar.1 28014 Mar 22 1988 vttool.shar.2 A tool that faithfully emulates a VT100. To learn how to use the Rice archiver, send a message containing the word "help" to archive-server@titan.rice.edu. The server will send you a message explaining how to use it. Hope this helps. David L. Kensiski 1772 Tribute Road Martin Marietta Data Systems Sacramento, CA 95815 UUCP: uunet.uu.com!mmsac!david VOICE: (916) 929-8844 UUCP: sun.com!sacto!mmsac!david
ell@linus.mitre.org (Edward L. Lafferty) (05/15/89)
sacto!mmsac!cygnus!david@sun (David L. Kensiski 929-8844) writes: >There are two vt100 packages that come to mind immediately. One I've used >and am somewhat familiar with, the other I've just heard about. >... There is one more vt100tool which attempts to faithfully emulate the vt100 including double characters, 132 column mode, bold, graphics and vt52 emulation. Since we no linger support anonymous ftp here, I have placed this program as a compressed tar file on the archiver at rice. It can be brought to your machine with anonymous ftp from: titan.rice.edu and it is called vt100tool.Z. Uncompress and then untar to a directory and do a make. It is the 4.0 version of the OS. Regards, Ed External: Internal Mail addresses at MITRE: ell@linus.mitre.org ell@mbunix ell@linus