Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes: Dave McGuire wrote: > I've heard it a lot. It's just the Windows people. "Terminal > programs are EXPENSIVE!" No. Idiots. Go get a grownup OS and leave > Windows for the videogames. Off the top of my head, I can name at least two dozen easy-to-install free terminal emulators for Windows. There are probably a great many more than that. Is PuTTY not available for WEENDOZE??? On Mac OS X and Linux, it does a failrly reasonable job of digesting the VT200 series escape sequences and even does DECSWL and DECDHL correctly. If you want to test your emulator, telnet to great-escape.tmesis.com and log in with VTTEST -- no password. It's a captive account that runs the VTTEST suite. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.