Updated: vttest 20231230

Cygwin vttest Maintainer Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Sun Dec 31 09:32:13 GMT 2023


The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

* vttest    20231230

Tests the functionality of a VT100 terminal (or emulator thereof).
Tests both display (escape sequence handling) and keyboard.
The program is menu-driven and contains full operating instructions.
To run a given menu-item, you enter its number. You can run all
menu-items (for a given level) by entering an asterisk, i.e, '*'.

It has been enhanced to support and test many xterm control and status
escape sequences, and it is mainly used nowadays for testing emulator
compatibility.

See the project home page for more information:

        https://invisible-island.net/vttest/

Please see below or read /usr/share/doc/vttest/CHANGES after installation
for details of changes since the last Cygwin release.

	https://github.com/ThomasDickey/vttest-snapshots/blob/master/CHANGES


20231230

- modify get_reply() to wait only 0.1 seconds for a response, in case
  vttest is run on a terminal which is not VT100-compatible.

- switch to/from ISO-2022 mode from UTF-8 if the user's locale is
  currently set to UTF-8.

- add DECRQSS test for XTQMODKEYS

- modify character set menus to filter out NRCS charsets when NRCS is
  not enabled.

- improve DECRQSS tests for DECAC and DECATC

- add DA2 code 48 for Thai VT382

- make separate VT510 DECRQSS menu to distinguish from VT520.

- modify DECAUPSS/DECRQUPSS tests to exercise switching to valid
  combinations for VT320 and VT520, etc., to test xterm #389.

- improve "-q" option, e.g., to avoid resetting the display of the
  response on string-terminator

- fixes/improvements
  . correct code and comment for DECTEK mode (38) with DECRPM
  . remove redundant code for DECVSSM mode (69)
  . correct locator status query
  . add identify-locator query
  . correct final characters in DECSDDT, DECSDPT, DECSEST tests
  . correct mnemonic for VT520 alternate text color
  . add DECPRO test with VT320 DECRQSS
  . add DECSRFR test with VT520 DECRQSS
  . add DECUS test with VT520 DECRQSS
  . add keyboard status codes for VT382
  . add keyboard types from VT420, VT510 and VT520 manuals
  . modify keyboard type parsing to report "unknown" for a zero
  . use VT525 DECAC to initialize that terminal to white-on-black



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