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Old 10-09-2008, 11:40 AM
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Default Re: xterm's Tek mode question

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> 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".
>
> Other than those test files, I've never used tek mode and can't answer
> anything else about it.
>
> Elijah
> ------
> google says that plot is part of Gnu's 'plotutils'


vttest also has some test-screens for the tek4014 emulation (including the
mouse). The control sequences are documented in xterm's control sequences
file.

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