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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo Termcap
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.161224.12313@alphalpha.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 16:12:24 GMT
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In article <7755@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink) writes:
>So seeking to avoid the vt100 emulator, I want to find an accurate
>termcap for a pad, such as is created by the command `cp /bin/csh`.

Pads are not terminals.  They are an evolutionary dead-end inspired
by the thought that workstations would make terminals obsolete.

DM pads do not support cursor addressing.

>How do people get around this problem?  I want to run emacs on an
X.
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