Re: Terminal Emulators

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Ross wrote:

>
> Al Hudson wrote:
> >
> > I don't whether it does or not, but I always thought minicom did this?
> > Maybe I'm wrong, I've never used the software before ;) Of course, Xterm
> > is also a terminal emulator... just need to attach it to the serial
> > port.. hmm, prolly. more bother than worth ;)

> minicom does talk, but not in vt100 format (at least not as far as i can
> tell)

It should be vt102, which is close enough to vt100 to work most of the time.
It supports colour and is fast small and efficient, I've used it for several
years.

> all the text appears on one line.

This sounds like you need to go in to the config and turn on linewrap (^A
O..the rest should be obvious). OR.. your screen size (mentioned in another
email) try:
stty rows 24 (local)
export TERM vt100 (at the remote end)
reset

Or make your xterm 25 lines large before starting minicom (it's normally used
in the console by people I think).

I need this myself when connecting to a sun from my home Linux box from the
console (have to login and fix faults asap, no time for X ;)

> seyon uses xterm as the emulator but it's not a fully functioning version
> (or maybe i just haven't set it correctly!) the graphics and text displays
> correctly but the function keys don't operate. the system i use needs the
> function keys for specific actions.

It's usually possible to remap functions keys, you could look at xmodmap and
do some websearches for this area, I took a short look at seyon and thought
erg :(

> got any idea's?

wine can run terminal.exe, (has done for about 4.5 years) but that is rubbish
:) If you know of a terminal emulator that you like in Windows you can try
wine on it. I found to my utter amazement that wine was able to startup IE5
and then when I went to news.bbc.co.uk even the java worked!!!

Damion

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