Are there any Open Source / Free Software vt220 / vt320 / vt400 terminal emulators out there?

[Jon]

Any that support the "status line" where the application thinks there is
an 80x24 terminal and some meta character tells the terminal to display
text after it in the "status line", which looks like a 25th line below
the 80x24 terminal?

[Josh Smith]

Screen?

Post by Jon
Any that support the "status line" where the application thinks there is
an 80x24 terminal and some meta character tells the terminal to display
text after it in the "status line", which looks like a 25th line below
the 80x24 terminal?

[Jon]

o;?
I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
"standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right
now). A Free Software program that emulates these well enough and runs
on GNU or BSD is what I'm looking for.

It's much easier to PXE or NFS - boot an OpenBSD system on 333mhz
thin-clients and run an NX client than have a bunch of expensive
counter-productive windows machines around.

Post by Josh Smith
Screen?

Post by Jon
Any that support the "status line" where the application thinks there is
an 80x24 terminal and some meta character tells the terminal to display
text after it in the "status line", which looks like a 25th line below
the 80x24 terminal?

[Edd Barrett]

Hi,

Post by Jon
o;?
I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
"standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right
now). A Free Software program that emulates these well enough and runs
on GNU or BSD is what I'm looking for.

Does the system support wyse terminal emulation? If so try comms/wy60.

We used this at my old job after the green screens started dying.

[Otto Moerbeek]

Post by Jon
o;?
I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
"standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application

Ehh, it's a bit rewriting history to call the vt line "dumb
terminals". vt terminals were considered pretty smart, acutully mroe
or less defining the term "smart terminal". That's still refelected in
the termcap database: a dumb terminal has no random cursor movement,
it more or less emulates a teletype.

-Otto

[Christian Weisgerber]

Post by Jon
I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
"standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right

The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1). For VT320
and later you are out of luck.

[Douglas A. Tutty]

Post by Jon
o;?
I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
"standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right
now). A Free Software program that emulates these well enough and runs
on GNU or BSD is what I'm looking for.
It's much easier to PXE or NFS - boot an OpenBSD system on 333mhz
thin-clients and run an NX client than have a bunch of expensive
counter-productive windows machines around.

Does it have to be an emulator? I'm typing this on a VT520 I bought for
$30 off ebay.

Doug.

[Unix Fan]

Post by Christian Weisgerber
The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1).

The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as "xterm", would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who peddles a terminal emulator without pseudo transparency should be locked up indefinitely. :-)







-Nix Fan.

[Grumpy]

Post by Unix Fan

Post by Christian Weisgerber
The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1).

The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as "xterm",
would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who
peddles a terminal emulator without pseudo transparency should be
locked up indefinitely. :-)

On-glass character remainance is not to be compared with pseudo
transparency.

Spoiled brats.

Grumpy

[Douglas A. Tutty]

Post by Grumpy

Post by Unix Fan

Post by Christian Weisgerber
The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1).

The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as "xterm",
would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who
peddles a terminal emulator without pseudo transparency should be
locked up indefinitely. :-)

On-glass character remainance is not to be compared with pseudo
transparency.
Spoiled brats.

I don't even know what "pseudo transparency" (or transparancy in the
xterm context) mean.

Doug.

[Jon]

gnome-terminal, and compiz with the blur effect heavily applied, no
scrollbar and window decorations which cast large shadows and match the
transparency and color of your terminal atop a very busy desktop
background, is where it's at.

Post by Unix Fan

Post by Christian Weisgerber
The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1).

The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as "xterm", would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who peddles a terminal emulator without pseudo transparency should be locked up indefinitely. :-)
-Nix Fan.