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From: chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: aixterm?
Message-ID: <1551@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:20:02 GMT
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Organization: Morgan Stanley, & Co., Inc. / New York City, NY
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On the RS6000 (I have been suffering with a few on our net for a while)
you should create (IBM doesn't supply it) an applications defaults
file, /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (nice of them to steal the class
name of a good program), which contains at least the following if you
want to get vt100-style xterm behavior.

aixterm*termName                        : xterm
aixterm*vt102                           : true

The programs xterm and aixterm are identical on the RS6000 and are not at
all like the X11R4 xterm from MIT that we all know and love.  If you don't
specify the vt102 resource then aixterm tries to emulate the /dev/hft junk
which I believe came into being on the RT.

I dislike aixterm so much that I run a local xterm on my SUN with
-e rlogin ...

"You can't be compatible by being incompatible."

~chuck
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