Vttest

Vttest is an application which is used to demonstrate features of VT100 and related terminals, or emulations thereof, such as xterm. The program was originally written in 1986 by Per Lindberg. It has been maintained and extended since 1996 by Thomas Dickey, to test and demonstrate features of xterm.

The newer version has always been distributed as a separate program; older versions have been bundled with other software, e.g., terminal emulators such as Rxvt, Konsole, [cite web
url=http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_konsole
title=XTERM - Frequently Asked Questions
author=Thomas E. Dickey] and the FreeBSD PCVT. [cite web
url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/vttest/
title=FreeBSD CVS for pcvt/vttest
date=August 16, 2005]

Perhaps prompted by the "scoresheet" presented by the developers of Kermit, some other developers of terminal emulators have asserted that their product achieves a given rating on the "VTTEST Score Card". [cite web
url=http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/vttest.html
title=The VTTEST VT100/102 Terminal Emulation Test] [cite web
url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vttest+score+card&btnG=Search
title=Google search for vttest score card] However, no independent validation of any of those claims exists.

References

External links

* [http://invisible-island.net/vttest/ VTTEST - VT100/VT220/XTerm Test Utility]