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From: dawson@apollo.HP.COM (Keith Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Tek401x emulation
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Date: 16 Oct 89 16:49:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dawson@apollo.HP.COM (Keith Dawson)
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 >  The xterm in Apollo's X11 distribution DOES support Tektronix
 >  mode; the way I read the comment in the release notes, Apollo
 >  does not support that mode - meaning they won't try to fix it if
 >  it doesn't work. The code is probably straight out of the
 >  official X distribution, and I imagine it is reasonably robust. 
 >  I sure hope so - I intend to use it myself...

This is about right. Versions of Domain/X11 for both SR9.7 and SR10.1
are based on X.V11R2 from MIT. The R2 xterm as it came from MIT had a
number of problems including, we have been told, some in the Tek4014
code. We fixed a bunch of these on the VT100 side. The reason we don't
offer Tek4014 support at SR9.7/SR10.1 is simply one of time and re-
sources. Tek4014 should work as well as it does in any other pure MIT
R2 X environment.

At SR10.2, when X Window System support is bundled with base software
(at no extra charge), we have moved to X.V11R3 for all libraries and
clients. The R3 xterm is considerably cleaner; there are no outstand-
ing problems reported against Tek4014. So we'll be supporting xterm
Tek4014 at SR10.2.

____________________________________________________________   My opinions
Keith Dawson  Hewlett Packard Co.         508-256-0176 x5739   are my own.
              Graphics Technology Division / East  
              300 Apollo Dr.  (CHR.03.DE)
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P.S. -- one reader got somewhat alarmed at the signature above. 
        The Apollo Systems Division is alive and quite well. I
        just don't happen to work in that division.