[Simh] Terminal Emulation for SIMH?

Zane Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Tue Sep 12 15:43:13 EDT 2017


> On Sep 12, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-09-12 20:41, Zane Healy wrote:
>> What terminal emulators are currently available for Mac OS X that support VT emulation, specifically the emulation of the keypad?  I previously used a script to reconfigure an X-Term, but I seem to recall the functionality in xterm was dropped.
> 
> xterm supports the VT keypad just fine without any scripts at all. Just select VT220 keyboard and off you go. (You might also want to set thing like DEL/BS and other things, to really get everything the proper way as DEC intended it.)
> 
> And so far, xterm is the only terminal emulator (apart from the one in Pathworks) that actually emulated a VT terminal correctly.

Is that xterm on Linux or Mac OS X?  I’ve installed XQuartz, and get keys undefined errors in EDIT.

Zane




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