On 2013-01-21 21:09, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes: PuTTY has been ported to Linux too? WTF? WHY?! For one, VTxxx compatibility. Unless one really understands the Xresources and how to move the appropriate fonts from VMS to Linux, build the fontdir, reset the font cache and update the font path, PuTTY is a right-out-of-the- box VTxxx emulation. In this regard, the Mac OS X Terminal.app works surprisingly well right-out- of-the-box. Xterm on Linux will require extensive changes to get it to pass that VTTEST suite. VTTEST didn't even reveal that Terminal.app fails to clear the screen on DECCOLM... However, I wonder if I maybe know the person who wrote it. "The Mad Programmer" is a moniker I associate with a certain person... Try your xterm and see how well it does with that test suite. Terminal.app can be used to used to see what should be there if you don't have a real VT terminal. Dave, I know you do. ;) xterm worked like a charm with everything I tried. And that with the default xterm under Mac OS X. I don't know what or how it would be different under Linux. Of course, you need to have the proper fonts installed, but those are the base fonts, which I would normally always expect to be installed (except I did a new Ubuntu install at work a couple of weeks ago, and it turned out that the fonts were not installed, so it might be that the Linux world have finally totally lost their mind...) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol