pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) writes:

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>In article <Aug.7.03.16.00.1992.26878@dumas.rutgers.edu> hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>   I've been doing some work on xterm.  My original goal was to let me
>   see some color on the screen.  (I think it's silly that we spend
>   hundreds of dollars on neat color monitors, and the software we use
>   most often -- xterm and emacs -- doesn't make much use of color.

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>agreed.

Check out Finxterm (a modified X11R4 xterm that adds support for 16 colors
in text mode and 16 colors i graphics mode, emulates the printer control
escape sequences, handles native 7-bit character sets (if one selects an
ISO 8859-1 font) and a number of other features. It also adds a number of
VT220 escape sequences and other nice things (like making it possible to
disable the cursor and other stuff).

I have been working on Finxterm on and of for the last year with the intention
of making it more or less fully VT220 compatible. Unfortunately a lot of stuff
has come inbetween which has lead to me not having to to do much work on it
lately.

I haven't tested it on Linux though. (Only on Suns).

It is available for anonymous FTP from ftp.lysator.liu.se in pub/X11/finxterm.

(The reason I choose the name "finxterm" is that the company I worked/work for
had a proprietary terminal emulator for IBM PC's called "finterm" (for
customers to interface to their mainframe. I would rather use a colour Sun
so I hacked xterm some..:-)

/Peter
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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.