> <begin quote>
> The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It
> The VT102 and Tektronix 4014 terminals each have their own window so that
> you can edit text in one
> and look at graphics in the other at the same time.
> <end quote>
This means that xterm has two distinct windows: VT102 and Tek 4014.
It'll switch between them when receiving the right control codes.
>>You didn't find Rick Shuford's archive of terminal info, then :-).
>No, dang it! Here we go again, like you were questioning a few days ago
>Tim: why don't some things get indexed?
Life isn't fair. Many search engines tend to be heavily oriented
towards flashy, glitzy sites that overload on META tags, have little
in the way of actual information, but lots of useless pictures.
(Sorry if I just insulted 97% of the web sites in existence, but
it's true.) Some search sites pride themselves at removing web
pages from their index if the information is more than a few weeks
old. (Hotbot, in particular, though others are now adopting this
strategy in response to hotbot's heavy TV advertising.)
>>>Could anybody point me to info on this terminal or at least describe what I
>>>have got and if it would be useable with VMS (the paging feature)?
>>VMS will work quite happily with the VT102. What exactly do you want
>>to make it do?
>Obviously, I would need some sort of way to use the windowing feature of
>the 102.
I think that you're talking about the xterm auto-switching between
Tek 4014 window and VT102 window when receiving the appropriate
control codes. As your VT102 doesn't do Tek 4014, this isn't
applicable.
(For those who haven't been using X-windows for the past decade,
"xterm" is a commonly used terminal emulator for X-windows.)
One gripe about terminal emulators: *never ever* assume that
because an emulator supports an escape code, feature, or function
key, that the item being emulated supports it. An example from
an article of mine that Rick thought was relevant enough to
include in his archive
(
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/emulation_how_to_news.txt):
The worst offender I've found is a commercial editor that requires
VT100 users to hit F5 through F10 to access certain abilities
that are rather necessary - such as exiting the editor. Despite
repeated phone calls to the company, I've yet to convince them that
a VT100 does NOT have F5 through F10 function keys. They claim that
because some popular Windows-based emulators implement these function
keys in VT100 mode, a real VT100 must as well. Arrggghhh!!!! I'm
tempted to deliver a half-dozen true VT100's to their corporate
offices via catapult.
> From the Neosoft site mentioned in the last msg to Zane, xterm
>would have to be used but it won't work on VMS as it doesn't run the X
>windowing system.
Gees, that's news to me. I've been running X-windows, and all the
big X-windows applications, under VMS for most of a decade now.
> However, am I correct in assuming
>DECwindows under VMS is the ticket here?
Yep. DECWindows = X-windows+Motif. Don't get too wrapped up in names :-)
When you do manage to get it up and going, head straight for one of
the big OpenVMS freeware sites (for example,
http://www.decus.org/libcatalog/description_html/vs0185.html
) and have some fun!
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Received on Sun Nov 22 1998 - 14:10:27 GMT