Re: Terminal Emulation

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Quoting Eric Mertens (emmf26_(_at_)_umr_(_dot_)_edu):
> What is the most capable terminal type that openbsd supports?  I use a
> serial interface to connect to my machine and to collect console
> messages and boot output.  I have been having trouble finding the actual
> different between vt100 vt220 vt320, etc.  I will change terminal
> emulators to support the most capable mode that openbsd can support, I
> just need to know with that is.

"most capable" - whatever that means.

I have a box with a Wyse50 on it.  it works fine.
MOst of the machines have "conserver" on it and
it doesn't really matter.

A tty would give you everything that the console gets.
Any vt100 emulator will do you fine.  A vt4x0 emulator
would give you nice pretty color curses options if you wanted.
Nobody wants.

(and everyone forgets that XTerm has a fine Tek emulator
too.  Neat things can be done with that and plot(1).  A friend
shot down a $15k graphing program with a little perl, plot
and tek emulation and about 3 hrs work.).