DECterm does allow graphics. I've used it, but can't remember the details.
For me the options were:
1. get a real VT340, already have a VT240
2. emulation software on a PC
3. DECterm, not a great option, works but if you want to use it remote
the hardware multiplys
4. xterm, this was new to me, easy under linux
Doug
On 6/21/2021 11:33 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I have to admit, I’m watching this with interest. Hopefully I can see about
getting this up and running one of these days.
I find myself wondering what it would take to build this on a Mac, the current
Mac xterm *SUCKS*!!! On the Mac, I can’t seem to use the custom DEC
keybindings.
Actually does DECterm support either Sixel and ReGIS? I’m dead on my feet, so
won’t power up my VAXstation 4000/90 and look.
Zane
On Jun 21, 2021, at 8:13 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Grant;
Wow, that is very helpful. I had downloaded xterm from invisible-island.net
and executed a ./configure. I complained that I lacked the Athena X widgets,
so I paused on it.
I'm going to give this another try.
I'd like to thank all the kind folks who posted a response to my initial
question.
Doug
On 6/20/2021 6:06 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 6/19/21 11:47 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Really? I'm interested. How do you build your own xterm?
Download and extract the source code.
Here's the configure command that I most recently used before teaching Gentoo's
ebuild about Sixel and ReGIS. (The command is derived from the ebuild I was
patterning off of.)
./configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --datadir=/usr/share
--disable-full-tgetent --disable-imake --disable-setgid --disable-setuid
--disable-toolbar --enable-256-color --enable-broken-osc --enable-broken-st
--enable-dabbrev --enable-exec-xterm --enable-i18n --enable-load-vt-fonts
--enable-logging --enable-luit --enable-mini-luit --enable-openpty
--enable-regis-graphics --enable-screen-dumps --enable-sixel-graphics
--enable-warnings --enable-wide-chars --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--infodir=/usr/share/info --libdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
--mandir=/usr/share/man --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
--with-app-defaults=/usr/share/X11/app-defaults --without-Xaw3d
--without-xinerama --with-utempter --with-x
The key part is "--enable-sixel-graphics" and / or "--enable-regis-graphics". I'm also partial to
the "--enable-256-color" and "--enable-screen-dumps".
The screen dumps mean that XTerm will save XHTML and / or XML dumps. Meaning
they are text that you can search / copy paste. }:-)
P.S. My messages to cctech don't seem to be going through. So I'm re-replying
to the message to cctalk.
