Terminal emulator





 vt(1) is  the terminal	emulator for Plan 9, it's  main	 use
case  is  for  programs	such as	 telnet(1) and	ssh(1) where
they usually expect a form of terminal emulator	existing.
You don't need vt to run plan 9	programs!

1.  connecting to unix systems

The argument  -r sets  vt(1) in	 raw mode, which is required
by  most,  if not all programs of UNIX.	 Raw mode allows the
program	handle details	of  screen  and	 keyboard  shortcuts
(such  as,  ctrl-a or tab for example) instead of the termi-
nal.  You may also set the emulated terminal type using	 -a,
  -2 and  -x which set the emulated terminal to	ASCII, VT220
and XTerm respectively.	 by default VT100 is emulated, which
have no	colors,	use XTerm if you want colors.  Default back-
ground color is	white (what else?), but	if you enjoy  black,
pass  -b

2.  fonts

Like all plan 9	programs,  vt(1) too uses bitmap fonts,	 you
may  set it with  -f argument.	for example, for  nice large
fonts:

  ; vt -rxbf /lib/font/lucidasans/typeunicode.16.font ssh username@domain.com






















		     November 21, 2024