On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:29:05 +0000 (UTC),
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>, in
wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.x, Chris Jones wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there are any programs that might help demo xterm's
> > Tektronix emulation - found examples that used such things as "graph"
> > and "plot" but I haven't been able to locate these programs in the
> > stable debian repository.
> >
> > I did find a tektests directory in the xterm source tree but I'm not
> > sure what these .tek files contain and how they can be used.
>
> Those are terminal sequences to test the tek graphic facilities. Start
> up an xterm in tek mode ("xterm -t"), then e.g., "cat usmap.tek".

It's been a while since I've had to use the tektronix graphics in an
xterm, but yeah, that's what I remember.

cat

and *poof* it was drawn. We'd do that to proof a plot before sending it
to a large-format plotter, which was some sort of thermal transfer device -
or was it an electrostatic?

It's been at least, umm, 14 years since I had to do that.

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