<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2011 00:15, Vance Shipley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vances@motivity.ca">vances@motivity.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
A terminal emulator emulates terminals. It's job is to act<br>
as identically as possible to the terminal it is emulating.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, still with you.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
PuTTY emulates only one terminal, you can't select which type it is,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
and it does so minimally.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">SecureCRT has many types it supports and<br>
it does a very good job at it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div></div></div><br><div>-klode</div>