Vttest

{{Short description|Application for feature demonstration of terminals or terminal emulators}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = vttest

| logo =

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| author = Per Lindberg

| developer = Thomas Dickey

| released = {{Start date and age|1986}}

| latest_release_version = 20200420

| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2020|04|20}}

| operating_system = Cross-platform

| genre = Utility software

| license = MIT License

| website = {{Official URL}}

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Vttest is an application that is used to demonstrate features of VT100 and related terminals, or emulations thereof, such as xterm. The program was originally written in 1986 by Per Lindberg. It has been maintained and extended since 1996 by Thomas Dickey, to test and demonstrate features of xterm.

The newer version has always been distributed as a separate program; older versions have been bundled with other software, e.g., terminal emulators such as Rxvt, Konsole,{{cite web

|url=http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_konsole

|title=XTERM - Frequently Asked Questions

|author=Thomas E. Dickey

}} and the FreeBSD PCVT.{{cite web

|url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/vttest/

|title=FreeBSD CVS for pcvt/vttest

|date=August 16, 2005

}}

Perhaps prompted by the "scoresheet" presented by the developers of Kermit, some other developers of terminal emulators have asserted that their product achieves a given rating on the "VTTEST Score Card".{{cite web

|url=http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/vttest.html

|title=The VTTEST VT100/102 Terminal Emulation Test

}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vttest+score+card

|title=Google search for vttest score card

}}

However, no independent verification of any of those claims exists.