10-20-2008, 11:25 PM
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 Re: xterm's Tek mode question
On 15 Oct 2008 01:59:03 GMT, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2008 11:14:10 GMT, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>> Chris Jones wrote:
>>> On 09 Oct 2008 11:40:25 GMT, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>>>> 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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>>> I couldn't find those .. but then the xterm I'm using is out of an
>>> xfree 4.3.0 tree - XTerm(222) per xterm -v. so that may be the reason.
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>> http://invisible-island.net/vttest/
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> Thanks. Found the tek tests in the "other terminals" sub menu - but
> haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
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>> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
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> Heavy stuff :-)
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>> Also -
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>> http://vt100.net/tektronix/4014-um/
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> Downloaded it but all I have is blank pages - with evince .. Haven't
> had the time to look into this.
My bad .. the 4014 manual and evince somehow do not get along.
I accidentally found that the reason I was getting blank pages was that
on my old/slow machine it took almost five (5) minutes to render the
first few pages.
I installed xpdf and was able to cursorily read through the manual and
I am rather amazed at what I read/saw.
It seeems that this terminal that goes back some 35 years had better
graphic capabilities than anything you can run on a PC. They are not
screenshots but there are a couple of photos that appear to display
highly complex graphics such as I have never seen on PC hardware.
I tried the vttest program and though it's not much use to me - I'm not
trying to verify that a particular emulation conforms to the original -
I did eventually manage to run the tek tests under "other terminals" and
it looks as if in my setup I was getting a VT emulation window with the
vttest menu - although $TERM was set to "tek4014" IIRC, and the result
of each test - such as a grid .. a display of Hello World in the four
available fonts .. was displayed in a separate "tek" window.
I'm still not sure why I'm getting text that looks like this:
H e l l o W o r l d
... when I start an "xterm -t" but that's not really such a major issue
after all.
This whole thing got me curious as to whether I could use a tek window
to display a graph of my CPU utilization .. or network up/down-load
traffic .. etc. - e.g.
But at this point what puzzles me most of all is why nobody seems to use
this emulation despite its potential?
Anyway .. sorry to bother you folks.
Have a great day!
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