[comp.archives] [sun-managers] vt100 emulations

barnett@pluto.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (05/08/91)

Archive-name: unix/terminal/vttool/1991-04-30
Archive: titan.rice.edu:/sun-source/vttool.shar.* [128.42.1.30]
Original-posting-by: barnett@pluto.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Original-subject: vt100 emulations
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


My mailbox overfloweth....

>   There are a few. one (mine) is called vttool and runs on any terminal,
>   or X windows or SunView. No graphics or fancy fonts.

>   Others are called teletool from NCSA, and CRTTOOL that does color
>   vt220 emulation.

I was swamped with requests about this. I queried archie and found out
where these beasts are available....

NOTE: teltool (not teletool) and crttool only work with SunView.

Here is some more info on vttool:

	It really consists of three programs
	vtem - a vt102 termcap-based vt100 emulator. Works on any terminal.
	vttool - a SunView tool layered over vtem
	xvttool - an XView tool layered over vtem.

You can wrap vttool/xvttool over any tty program. It provides two
functions:
	1) It adds a panel to the right (or left) side of the tty
	   window. This panel has mouse-clickable buttons for function keys.
	2) It does keyboard remapping - more or less.
		(You can redefine function keys to send out special
	         sequences. Even remap the Delete key on a per-window
		 basis. Some versions of the libraries and type 4
		 keyboards don't work in an obvious manner. I wish I
	         understood why so I could fix the code for all combinations.

I have used vttool/xvttool to add buttons to a tn3270 emulator like tn3270.
I released an older version of vttool (1.8) on the SUG tapes. The
current version of vttool is 1.15. (1.14 is the same - more or less).
The new features over 1.8 are keyboard mapping and the ability to
change the mouse panel buttons on the fly. Xvttool doesn't yet support
multiple button configuration files.

Archives:
vttool:
	titan.rice.edu:~ftp/sun-source/vttool.shar.?
	or by email: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com

It's on other sites, but I don't know how recent they are.

crttool:
	titan.rice.edu:~ftp/sun-source/crttool.shar.?
        eru.mt.luth.se
        iamsun.unibe.ch
        oersted.ltf.dth.dk
        tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
        tybalt.caltech.edu

teltool:
	biom3.univ-lyon1.fr
	andy.bgsu.edu


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found vttool ok
titan.rice.edu:/sun-source/vttool.shar.*