snoopy@ixos.uucp (05/30/90)
Dear Net, here is the promised summary of terminal emulations for DEC VT220 terminals available under X-Windows. Firstly let me please correct one of my mistakes. When I said xvt100 in my query I of course meant 'xterm'. We just call it xvt100 on some of our machines. The response was quite good; although some people just wanted to add their name to the list in the "I need that too" form (thats OK with me). Thanks to all who contributed: fdmetd.UUCP!petter Brian Smithson <uunet!engadm!brian> eng.umd.edu!stripes (Joshua Osborne) cdss!lyons (Don R Lyons) psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!ultb!jmb1989 (J.M. Beaven) erbe.se!prc (Robert Claeson) engadm!sacto (Jim Brown) der Mouse <Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU!mouse> davel@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Dave Linton) lupine!ed (Ed Basart) !cochise.pcs.com!mike (Mike Schroeder) !meepmeep.pcs.com!jkh (Jordan K. Hubbard) Here is the summary: 1. If your have a DEC machine, DEC will supply dxterm which does VT320/340 emulation: "If you own any DEC machines you can use DECterm which is a vt340 emulator." "DEC has their dxterm, which is a VT240 emulator or something like that. It is a DECwindows product and is only available for VMS and Ultrix (we use, among others, Encore's Multimax systems, DG's AViiON's and a few Sun's)." 2. Century Software make a commercial one. Also NCD will come up with something in their newest X-Terminals. "Century Software 5284 South 320 West Suite C134 Salt Lake City, Utah 84197 USA Phone: (801) 268-3088 A West German Contact is: Tauris Data (06121) 50 93 92." "There are a couple of companies who sell X clients that imitate VT220. The only one I can think of now is Century Software in Utah somewhere. You can try sending email to mikeh@ncd.com to see if he knows of others. MikeH is in charge of market development and keeps track of 3rd party software. The next release of NCDware (2.2) will have a VT220 emulator built in as a "local client" running on the NCD station. This is not the best answer, but the guys building terminal emulators seem to be slow getting off the mark." 3. There is a program that can be ftp'd: "(Time for another plug for mterm :-) I have a program which is a fairly close VT emulation, if you don't want 132-column mode or REGIS graphics. It was written from a copy of ANSI X3.64 and a DEC VT330 manual. It does not support *all* the special character sets; anything not found in an ISO8859-1 font is not available. It also does not do smooth-scroll or software-changable tabs stops. It does do double height and/or width and several video attributes (bold, light, underline, blinking, reverse, and invisible). If nothing else it may be a good starting point. (And the price is right :-) If you can ftp, connect to 132.206.1.1, cd to X/mterm.src, and poke around. If not, drop me a line and I can mail it to you. As always, I welcome any comments anyone may have on it." I hope the above summary helps those who are looking. Once again thanks to all of you who helped. Love, Snoopy