It also has the ability to do some keyboard mapping. But it seems to me that is over kill since Mac OS X does provide a terminal emulator.Īnd if you do not like the Mac OS X provided Terminal application, you can download iTerm which is another free terminal emulator. If you really want a Windows based terminal emulator, then you would need to either find a vendor that offers both a Windows and Mac version of their terminal emulator, or you would need to run Windows in a Virtual Machine, such as VMware Fusion, Parallels, or VirtualBox.
Everyone has been say you just launch Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, and you have a terminal emulator. No one said anything about loading a Windows based terminal emulator. How would i load a windows based terminal emulator while using OSX like you mention? Strawberry Perl is an open source binary distribution of Perl for the Windows. You can do some key mapping via Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboad. You need to type these commands into a Terminal emulator (Mac OS X, Win32, Linux. I also need to be able to define keyboard mapping as we use non standard key layouts. That is what Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal is.
