Re: misc/10127 (port i386 /etc/ttys says vt220 instead of wsvt25)

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>"Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc." <woods%planix.ca@localhost> writes:
>>  Matching xterm might be an even better target and a better solution to  
>>  the problem, even though it too goes through a whole lot of hoops for  
>>  bug-to-bug compatibility with ancient technology.
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>Emulating a color xterm would, of course, be ideal, since then the
>"log in to remote machine" problem etc. all go away and you get all
>the features you want on the local box. If you can make that happen...
>
>Perry
>
        Please no.  Despite my name sometimes being attached to it (someone
else actually deserves all of the credit/blame), color xterm is an awful
hack - a strange mix of VTxx/ANSI and MS/IBM escape sequences (and, unless
they've been fixed, there were some conflicts between the command sets).

BTW.  The "original" xterm emulated a VT102, VT52 or Tek - all probably much
worse choices than either VT100 or VT220 for portability.  (I think I added
some of the missing VT100 escape sequences in X11R5, but at least a few were
reverted/deleted in X11R6 or later in XFree86.)

        Paul Shupak