VT100 emulation does not appear to draw screen properly

Issue:
When telneting to the Jetstream or CS9000 the Screen or Easy Port menu are not drawn correctly when using VT100 emulation.

Cause:
The telnet client does not fully support the complete VT100 character set.

Solution:

To test your telnet client's VT100 emulation capabilities you can use "vttest".
vttest is a program to test VT100 compatible terminals and emulators.

Source files can downloaded from the Internet.

Once installed you can telnet to the host running vttest and run the Character Set test.
The Character set 0 should appear as below:

If you do not see the special graphic characters then your telnet client is not fully emulating VT100.

Note: some terminal applications default to "autodetect" the terminal emulation so you must manually configure this parameter to vt100.


Article ID:
 383
Published:
 9/3/2003 10:05:43 AM
Last Modified:
 7/2/2004 9:59:07 AM
Issue Type:
 Trouble Shooting