Re: termcap ballast

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

Frank da Cruz wrote on 1999-11-04 01:16 UTC:
> is not true, however, in the reverse direction, where we have applications
> running on these same platforms that do not use terminfo/termcap, but are
> hardwired for real physical terminals that are no longer manufactured, and
> not widely (or well) emulated.  You can laugh at these applications, but
> that won't make them go away.

But wouldn't it be much easier to plug a terminal protocol converter on
to of these applications? Under Unix with the availability of pseudo-tty
devices, this is very easy to do. A terminal protocol converter running
on the host could work very similar to say GNU screen.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/gnu/screen/screen-3.9.4.tar.gz

GNU screen can actually be used to run hardwired VT100 applications on
any terminal supported by termcap/terminfo.

Did someone already look into UTF-8 support for screen?

Markus

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