On 2013-01-21 18:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 09:16, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote: 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. I was absolutely surprised at how well Mac OS X's Terminal.app handled that test. And I identified the first two bugs within 30 seconds of trying it. 1) It identifies itself as a VT100, although it's clearly more capable than that. (And I wonder how it actually deals with the printer port it claims it have...) 2) A DECCOLM should clear the screen, even if the width don't change. I'm sure I would find more if I tried. I don't use the terminal app in general. xterm works so much better if you want something VT220 like. 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