Wy60 Terminal Emulator
While there are plenty of different terminal emulator programs available,
the majority of them only provide support for VT100 or ANSI style escape
codes. This is not a problem if your applications understand about the
$TERM environment variable, but there are many legacy applications
which have been hardcoded with support for the Wyse 60 family of
terminals. This is where the Wy60 Emulator comes into play; it looks
at the value of your $TERM environment variable and using the
curses library, dynamically converts from Wyse 60 escape
codes to whatever escape sequences your terminal requires. This allows you
to continue using your favorite terminal program while running your old
legacy programs.
The code has successfully been tested under
Linux,
FreeBSD,
Solaris, and
Mac OS X -- and will probably run fine
under any modern UNIX or POSIX compliant operating system. While this program
is primarily written for UNIX style environments, it is possible to compile it
against the Cygwin libraries and run it
under Windows.
The quality of the emulation is getting better with every release, but there
is still only a subset of escape commands that is currently supported. If you
need 100% correct support for all commands, I suggest you get hold of a hardware
Wyse 60 terminal (or file a detailed bug report against this project).
Wyse and Wyse 60 are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Wyse Technology, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property
of their respective owners. This project is in no way affiliated with Wyse
Technology, Inc.