[ale] Rolling your own terminal emulator

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:25, Bob Toxen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:34:13PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > RFC's on emulation.
> > You'll also need an understanding of the UNIX tty system.
> Oh, and if you're emulating more than straight text this will be a lot
> of work, days, weeks, or months.

Correct


Try and write a converter first.  Maybe a Wyse50 emulator that can
convert the wy50 comamnds to the current term.  If you are using xterm
then you would convert wy50 to the xterm type.