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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:43:39 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with function keys codes with vt100 emulation
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Reza,

RXVT has been specially ported for Cygwin and can operate both under 
XFree86/Cygwin and "stand-alone" (without an X server).

If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, RXVT will try to connect to the 
server it designates. If there's no DISPLAY environment variable, then RXVT 
will create a native Windows window.

I'm not an RXVT expert, but I assume that most of its configuration options 
and resources will still work even when not running in X mode.

I don't know about other emulators that might be available or readily 
ported to Cygwin.

As for a Cygwin-independent emulator, I'm sure there are lots of them. I 
like TeraTerm. It has settings for VT100, VT101 and VT102 emulation (and 
VT282, VT320 and VT382). There is also an SSH module for TeraTerm. I don't 
know how faithful the emulations are, but it might be worth checking out.

Perhaps you should say more about the software you're trying to use. Maybe 
someone else here has dealt with the same issues you are.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 21:23 2002-11-06, you wrote:
>Thank you both for the explanations.
>
>The differnece between a "terminal" (as in cygwin console) and a "terminal
>emulator" (as in hyperterm) finally clicked for me.
>I am interfacing (using telnet) to an application that expects an ansi
>terminal and this is just not possible with the cygwin console.
>
>While running X-Windows, I know I can do the key mapping feature of X to
>accomplish the above for, say, xterm or another (virtual) terminal
>application.  Randall suggested looking into RXVT and I did briefly.  It
>appears that RXVT is also X based.  I am looking for a solution that does
>not need X-Windows and is hopefully bundled with Cygwin.
>
>  I understand your statment "Cygwin emulates the cygwin term type" to mean
>that key code generation is done in the cygwin1.dll (as Randall said
>before).  So in order to emulate another terminal type I need something like
>kermit or hyperterm and can also do telnet.  Are there any vt100 or ansi
>terminal emulators shipped as a part of cygwin that don't require X-Windows
>and can do telnet?
>
>Regards,
>
>Reza


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