tcvt - two column virtual terminal
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Availability
tcvt is available at http://subdivi.de/~helmut/tcvt/. Apr 15, 2012 tcvt(1)
Bugs
Not all ANSI terminal features are emulated. If you experience rendering issues, you can export the
environment variable TCVT_DEVEL. It causes tcvt to crash upon seeing an unimplemented character
sequence. The error message includes the unrecognized sequence.
Description
The two column virtual terminal emulates a virtual terminal inside another virtual terminal. The
emulated virtual terminal is twice as tall and half as wide as the original terminal. The upper half of
the virtual terminal goes to the left and the lower half goes to the right of the original terminal. An
ANSI terminal is emulated.
While tcvt does this conversion unconditionally, the optcvt can be used with smaller terminals. It will
only invoke tcvt, if the terminal is wide enough and otherwise simply exec the passed program.
Exit Status
The exit status of the wrapped program is propagated. When tcvt produces an error of its own, 255 is
returned.
Name
tcvt - two column virtual terminal
Options
Both programs take a program and options to that program. They execute the given program. If no program
is given a shell is executed.
In addition the tcvt tool accepts a few switches.
-c, --columns
Specify the number of columns. This defaults to two.
-h, --help
Print a quick option overview and exit.
-r, --reverse
Order columns so that the last one is the left most.
-- Signal end of options.
Any non-option argument signals the end of options for tcvt.
See Also
screen(1) splitvt(1)
Synopsis
tcvt [-ccolumns] [-h] [-r] [--] programoptionsoptcvtprogramoptions
