[Simh] Questions about VT emulation

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-05-28 17:24, Michael Unger wrote:
> On 2017-05-28 02:27, "Johnny Billquist" wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> As for "usable VT emulators", it all depends on what your expectations
>> and demands are.
>> Pretty much any terminal emulator will have some level of VT emulation
>> in there. But most of them have some bugs somewhere or another.
>>
>> It you are really picky, then the only one I've found acceptable is
>> xterm, and the actual DEC terminal emulator in Pathworks.
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I suppose that one isn't free software ...

Right. It's not.
And it only works under Windows. So my weapon of choice it xterm.

>> But for most people, something like Putty works well enough.
> 
> Rather recently I found the "Tera Term Project Page" [1] by chance:
> 
> | [...] Tera Term is open source free software terminal emulator
> | supporting UTF-8 protocol. Now TTSSH supports SSH2 protocol
> | (Original version supports SSH1).
> 
> But I can't comment on the program's quality so far. At least there seem
> to be several localized versions.

TeraTerm also works. Same deal. If you are picky, then there are a 
couple of issues, but for most people it works well enough.

	Johnny

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