SYNOPSIS

This is a program to test the compatibility (or to demonstrate the non-compatibility) of so-called "VT100-compatible" terminals. In conformance of the good old hacker traditions, the only documentation of this program is the source code itself. To understand it, you also need a copy of the original VT100 manual from DEC.

Additional tests (past version 1.7) are provided for analysis of vt220, vt420 terminals, as well as variants of xterm.

HISTORY

Vttest 1.7 was written in 1986 by Per Lindberg at the Stockholm University Computing Center. I began this version in mid-1996 to support changes that I am making to xterm. See the changelog for details.

Download: The source (gzip'd tar)