22 Nov
1998
22 Nov
'98
8:23 a.m.
Big time right on. Being an exDEC terminals and
printers widget I have
yet to find a terminal emulation on the PC that does a correct
VT100(series) or remotely passable Vt2xx/3xx even the the latter have
very similar key layouts. They are universally broken.
The vast majority of emulators out there (both freeware and commercial)
are badly broken. The closest I've found is:
1. MS-DOS Kermit from http://www.columbia.edu/~kermit/ (unfortunately,
this page seems to be broken this weekend; but you can always ftp
from ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/
2. DEC LK250 keyboard (VT-220-type key layout, plugs into a PC-clone.)
3. The LK250 config file that comes with MS-DOS Kermit.
There are some failings of the above combination, but it works
fine with me for 99.99% of the stuff I have to do.
A very excellent emulator test is Dickey's "vttest"; see
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/vttest/ for details.
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