[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Claude Morin]

On 12 May 2011 00:15, Vance Shipley <vances at motivity.ca> wrote:

> A terminal emulator emulates terminals.  It's job is to act
> as identically as possible to the terminal it is emulating.
>

Yep, still with you.


> PuTTY emulates only one terminal, you can't select which type it is,
>

Um...okaaay?  But it's still a terminal emulator, for vt100.  If you have a
special need for e.g. an IBM 3270 you're right, PuTTY won't help you.


> and it does so minimally.


I disagree with this assertion, however at this point all I can offer is my
own counter assertion.  I'll go away now and dig up the VT100 torture test
from the 80s.


> SecureCRT has many types it supports and
> it does a very good job at it.
>

BTW I wasn't taking issue with whatever you want to use.  I just disagree
with the stated reason for using SecureCRT: "PuTTY is severely broken".   I
guess the good thing about PuTTY being open source is that people can
download it, try it, and decide for themselves rather than relying on our
blather.

-klode
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