Terminal App's (was Re: [X4U] Re: FTPclient)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:52 AM +0000 1/14/06, David Ledger wrote:
>>From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
>One of my pet peaves with reguards to Mac OS X is the lack of good free
>>Terminal (for what I do, Terminal.app isn't good), Usenet, and FTP clients.
>>		Zane
>
>Doesn't an xterm work for you? That's what I use almost exclusively, 
>as it's what I use on the machines I get paid for administering.

It comes close, and it's what I use.  However, if you're working with 
Operating Systems that doublewidth fonts and a fully functional 
keypad then there are problems.  Apple in its infinite arrogance 
decided to disable the -xrm flag on xterm, as a result to change the 
keymappings you have to change them in the .xmodmap file, which 
changes them for the entire system.

 From my brief foray into 10.4 things are a little better there, as 
they significantly improved font handling.

The irritating thing is, Windows seems to be the *only* OS with good 
free terminal emulators, and the best Usenet clients I've seen have 
also been on Windows.  I've actually considered running these under 
Virtual PC, but VPC seems to have a bad habit of eating itself.

On classic TiftyTelnet came pretty close, but couldn't get the fonts 
right, and the keypad handling wasn't right.  I've even demoed the 
commercial terminal emulation software available for Mac OS X, and 
none of it seems to get it quite right.

I just wish I could find room on my desk for a couple VT420 terminals!

		Zane

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