On 09 Oct 2008 11:40:25 GMT, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> 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".

I had taken a peek and they looked like a bunch of ctlseq's but somehow
it didn't click .. I'm more familiar with using echo and didn't realize
it was a simple as cat'ting them.

>> 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.
>