1 Sep
2004
1 Sep
'04
5:14 a.m.
John A. Dundas III wrote:
At 12:11 PM -0400 9/1/04, Paul Koning wrote:
The point of my exercise was to verify that a real VT100 would perform
hooked up to OS X through a USB serial adapter. [It worked fine.] That
it works as expected with SIMH is merely icing and perhaps useful for
others to know.
The stock Terminal application in OS X does not do a complete or
satisfactory VT100 emulation, in my book. There are indeed other
emulators that may or may not do the desired job.
I haven't started Terminal.app in months. It's so-so for a local
command line and abysmal for remote work with any other OS.
The X11 code for OS X from Apple comes with a good xterm, and rxvt
builds cleanly. Both behave generally well, and both can be keymapped
to accomodate the remote OS's needs.
Doc
>>>> "John" == John A Dundas, <John> writes:
John> At 11:26 AM -0400 9/1/04, John Allain wrote:
> What I'm looking for I think is a command
shell with VT100 support
> that I can run SIMH in locally. Alternately I could just connect
> the actual terminal to a serial line. Anybody do this?
John> I have done precisely this under Mac OS X. Took a real VT100,
John> connected to a Keyspan USB serial adapter, modified /etc/ttys
John> appropriately, and there you go.
Considering that Mac OS X has terminal emulators that (presumably) can
emulate a VT100, why didn't you just use those?