25 May
2005
25 May
'05
1:21 a.m.
At 10:46 PM -0600 5/24/05, Mike Cesari wrote:
Try GLterm. You can get it at:
http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/
10 bucks shareware. It does VT102 emulation and has proper keypad
functionality -- toggle between app and numeric keypad modes by
cmd-numlock as numlock is *really* the PF1 key :)
The only downside is that you have to use F1 - F4 for PF1 - PF4
in numeric keypad mode.
Double wide and double high characters are rendered properly.
Characters are fuzzy under some conditions such as 132 column mode in
a too narrow window and the double sized characters are somewhat fuzzy.
This is due to the way he uses OpenGL to draw the characters. (See the Q&A)
The graphics and line drawing characters (char. set 0) are there, too.
It does a good job dealing with vttest (better than either xterm or
Terminal.app), but no VT52 emulation.
EDT and SED keypad works in TOPS-20.
Not associated with the author, just pleased with the result.
Mike
Wow! That is without a doubt probably the fastest terminal emulator
I've ever used! My standard test of logging into OpenVMS, firing up
"mailbox" (uses double sized fonts), and then editing a text file so
I can test the keypad doesn't show any problems.
BTW, one interesting thing to note about the Mac OS X 10.4 upgrade is
that the xterm handles doublesized fonts (I don't think I've ever
seen an xterm on any OS do that). With my modified .Xmodmap file, I
have the xterm behaving almost as good, except it seems to loose its
keymapping for the delete key occasionally.
I think I might just switch to this for my terminal emulation!
Besides, I like that it uses a VT100 for an icon :^)
Zane
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