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Bug#91252: PROPOSED] enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy, second try



On 30-Mar-01, 17:50 (CST), Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu> wrote: 
> 
> are there testing utilities available such that one could 
> check that something is in fact 'vt100 compatible' ?

    export TERM=vt100 vi

followed by a little browsing and editing would problably be a good
enough test for this purpose.

(Note that hardly any of the "vt100 compatible" terminal emulators are
actually capable of doing a true VT100 terminal, there's lots of obscure
(and rarely used) features, particularly weird keys.)

Steve

-- 
Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>



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