Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux

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From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux
Date	Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:02:32 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-11-02, Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:12:52 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2016-11-02, Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> I use multiple instances of TeraTerm in Windows to provide ANSI/VT100
>>> emulation for embedded processor diagnostics using serial USB
>>> converters.  It's not unusual to have six running at once.
>>>
>>> What are my best options in Linux, specifically Peppermint 7?
>> 
>> I recommend ckermit, which isn't a terminal emulator, just a rock-solid
>> serial comm program.  You can run it in any terminal emulator you want
>> (linux console, xterm, aterm, rxvt, urxvt, gnome-terminal, kterm,
>> screen, ...)
>
> This throws me, and I'm sorry I didn't mention it.  In Windows-land, a 
> "terminal emulator" is a program that makes your computer emulate a 
> serial terminal.  In Unix-land, a "terminal emulator" is a program that 
> runs under X and emulates the serial terminal that the operating system 
> was originally designed to talk to.  So, they're two entirely different 
> things with the same name.  

Well, they're not entirely different.  Both of them emulate a vt52, or
vt102, or ANSI, or Wyse50, or Tek4014[1], or whatever inside a
graphical window.

The Windows version _also_ handles serial-port (and often network)
communications.

The X version just talks to a pty (which is sort of a dumbed-down
minimalist virtual serial port that connects two programs together)
and leaves the actual serial-port stuff to be handled by whatever is
connected to the other end of the pty.  Then you can connect the other
end of the pty to ckermit, tip, cu, telnet, ssh, rsh, nc, or anything
else you want to use to provide a byte-stream connection to the
applicatoin that's expecting to talk to a "terminal".

[1] Yes, xterm will still emulate a Tektronix 4014 storage-scope
    vector graphics terminal [except, sadly, there's no bright-green
    flash when the screen is erased -- I've always wanted to add
    that...]

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! It's some people
                                  at               inside the wall!  This is
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ANSI terminal emulators for linux Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2016-11-02 17:22 +0000
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-11-02 12:26 -0500
    Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2016-11-06 13:12 +0000
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-02 18:12 +0000
    Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-11-02 13:21 -0500
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-02 18:52 +0000
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-02 19:02 +0000
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2016-11-02 22:13 +0100
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-11-03 18:36 +0000
    Re: ANSIOA terminal emulators for linux Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-11-03 11:47 +0200
      Re: ANSIOA terminal emulators for linux Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-11-03 06:43 -0700
      Re: ANSIOA terminal emulators for linux Petter Gustad <newsmailcomp6@gustad.com> - 2016-11-04 20:59 +0100
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-11-02 11:37 -0700
    Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-11-02 11:45 -0700
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-11-02 21:14 +0100
    Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-02 21:23 +0000
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-11-03 08:02 +0100
      Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-11-03 14:52 -0700
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 16:28 -0400
  Re: ANSI terminal emulators for linux Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2016-11-03 12:17 +0000

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