Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!apollo!nazgul
From: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100 -- alternatives?
Message-ID: <44343c35.1b147@apollo.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 89 19:30:00 GMT
References: <8254@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <8254@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes:
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>I am having problems with the vt100 emulator supplied by Apollo.
>It came without sources (why?!) so I cannot fix it.  Is there an

Did you get sources for anything else?

>alternative program, PD perhaps?  All I really need is a way to
>control the TEXT in a window: cursor addressing, erase to EOL,
>erase to EOS -- via escape sequences of chars output to the window.

What kind of problems are you having?  Have you reported them?

>(I would also need a way to invoke the alternative instead of the
>Apollo vt100 automatically when a program (e.g., vi) uses TERMCAP.)

You *might* be able to do that by replacing the vt100 program
with it, I have no idea whether it would work though.

>The Apollo "vt100" thingy insists on changing the font to its own

One would expect the vt100 emulator to switch to a vt100 font :-).
In any case, look in /sys/dm/fonts and you can replace the vt100
fonts with ones of your own choosing.

>choosing, and hangs mysteriously at times during a "vt100 rlogin".

Can you post (and/or submit an APR) with more details?

								-kee

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