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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  vt300 xterm or DECterm for SUN4 ??
Message-ID: <9010130407.AA11582@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 90 04:07:23 GMT
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> The problem: The software requires a vt300 terminal or a DECterm for
> some grafic outputs.

> So my question is: Is there an xterm which can emulate a vt300
> terminal or does something like a DECterm emulator for SUN/X11 exist?

My mterm's ANSI-with-DEC-extensions mode was written to a VT330 manual.
Depending on what you need it may be good enough.  It does not do
80/132 column switching, keypad keys, or REGIS graphics.  If the font
contains line-drawing characters in the proper places, it does know how
to use them.  It does do double height and/or width characters, and it
does handle the bold/light, italic (if an appropriate font is
available), underline, blinking, reverse video, and invisible character
attributes (CSI ... m sequence).  (Fast blink and strike-through may
show up eventually.)  It is believed to be 8-bit-clean when run with
the appropriate option[%], and if the font contains the proper glyphs
it can handle ISO Latin-1 just fine.

It can be gotten by anonymous ftp (132.206.1.1, cd to X/mterm.src and
get mterm.README, and read it for further instructions).  I can also
mail copies if necessary.

[%] As distributed, it strips the high bit by default, because for me,
    stripping parity bits is more generally useful than 8-bit character
    handling.

					der Mouse

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