RXVT has been specially ported for Cygwin and can operate both under XFree86/Cygwin and "stand-alone" (without an X server).
If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, RXVT will try to connect to the server it designates. If there's no DISPLAY environment variable, then RXVT will create a native Windows window.
I'm not an RXVT expert, but I assume that most of its configuration options and resources will still work even when not running in X mode.
I don't know about other emulators that might be available or readily ported to Cygwin.
As for a Cygwin-independent emulator, I'm sure there are lots of them. I like TeraTerm. It has settings for VT100, VT101 and VT102 emulation (and VT282, VT320 and VT382). There is also an SSH module for TeraTerm. I don't know how faithful the emulations are, but it might be worth checking out.
Perhaps you should say more about the software you're trying to use. Maybe someone else here has dealt with the same issues you are.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 21:23 2002-11-06, you wrote:
Thank you both for the explanations. The differnece between a "terminal" (as in cygwin console) and a "terminal emulator" (as in hyperterm) finally clicked for me. I am interfacing (using telnet) to an application that expects an ansi terminal and this is just not possible with the cygwin console.While running X-Windows, I know I can do the key mapping feature of X to accomplish the above for, say, xterm or another (virtual) terminal application. Randall suggested looking into RXVT and I did briefly. It appears that RXVT is also X based. I am looking for a solution that does not need X-Windows and is hopefully bundled with Cygwin. I understand your statment "Cygwin emulates the cygwin term type" to mean that key code generation is done in the cygwin1.dll (as Randall said before). So in order to emulate another terminal type I need something like kermit or hyperterm and can also do telnet. Are there any vt100 or ansi terminal emulators shipped as a part of cygwin that don't require X-Windows and can do telnet? Regards, Reza
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