At 15:10 11/22/98 -0500, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>control codes. As your VT102 doesn't do Tek 4014, this isn't
>applicable.
Understood.
>
>(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.
I originally understood X-windows was usually a Unix-specific application.
This was until I saw your line below stating DECWindows = X-windows+Motif.
I stand severly corrected :-)
>
>> 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 :-)
Yeah, names got me in trouble just a bit ago . . .
>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!
Thanks Tim.
Regards, Chris
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