[TUHS] Re: Compatibility question

David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> writes: Unless you are actually using a real VT100 physical serial terminal there is very much a non-zero chance that the terminal emulator that you are using is not really vt100, vt102, or any such thing, but some subset, superset or variant that isn't quite like a real physical VT100, close but not exact. You may try 'ansi' or 'xterm', if either of those are available in the Unix you are using. If not, try a different terminal emulator. Example.. a long time ago in a university far away, there was Data General systems mostly and lots of DG211 terminals. The DG211 have a ansi mode that is very close to vt100, but not quite. Along comes various Unix systems, in particular, a RS6000. Wanting to play Moria (successor to rogue), I found that the ansi mode didn't quite cut it and ended up hacking up a TERMCAP / TERMINFO entry to deal with the issue as best as it was possible. I could never come up with a native DG211 entry that worked any better than my hacks. If I recall, the terminal *MAY* have supported VT52 as well (or that might have been the MV10000 that did some sort of DG211 to VT52 translation) I know I ended up writing a VT52 terminal emulator (for some reason or other... it was a long time ago) and I know I used it on the Unix systems that started to appear around the university as time went on. VT52 was pretty simple and it tended to work pretty well. -- Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org