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by Blackthorn 1318 days ago
I'm curious to know what you still need to pull out a hardware vt420 terminal for!
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OpenVMS on VAX. There are plenty of terminal emulators out there that are 99% VT420 compatible. On *nix it's rare to notice that remaining 1%, but on VMS it's noticable.
Try xterm. Guy who develops it has a VT compatibility test suite, which most terminal emulators fail because they're mainly crappy xterm emulators. Xterm was/is written to actually emulate terminals.
xterm? Never heard of it.

In all seriousness though... sorry, friend - that's a negative re: xterm vt420 compatibility.

Quoting from the [current] author's own website at invisible-island.net/xterm/ :

"[xterm] also implements most of the control sequences for VT220, as well as selected features from other DEC terminals such as VT320, VT420, and VT520."

That "selected features" bit is why I keep the real glass one around. Paging is probably the most deficient area that I really notice.