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From: don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X/Sunview, Open Windows 2.0 and Word Perfect
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Date: 25 Oct 90 11:00:00 GMT
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) Return-Path: <uunet!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-mailer>
) Date: 24 Oct 90 21:52:59 GMT
) From: uunet!beaver.cs.washington.edu!ubc-cs!cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca!hook  (Chris Hook)
) Organization: University of British Columbia
) Subject: X/Sunview, Open Windows 2.0 and Word Perfect
) Sender: uunet!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request
) To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
) 
) 
) Well, my request is pretty much all there in the Subject heading. That is, 
) I need to supply a user (alomst right away) with Word Perfect to be
) run on a Sun Sparc Workstation, using any or all of the following windowing
) systems:
)  X11R4, Sunview, Open Windows 2.0.
) 
) If I can even get the companies to contact that would be a great help. Also,
) if anyone has used this product under these conditions, I would appreciate
) hearing from them about their experiences.
) 
) Thanks alot,
) Chris Hook
) hook@geog.ubc.ca
) 
) 


WordPerfect will not in any way shape or form work well under X.  I
have tried everything, including talking to the WordPerfect people and
they have no idea.  The problem is that they implemented their own
terminal capabilities scheme within their product.  If you tell
WordPerfect you are running on a vt100 (in an xterm window), you have
access to only 4 function keys, since the classic vt100 terminal only
had 4 function keys.  If you tell WordPerfect you are a Sun, (in an
xterm window) it puts garbage on the screen.  The WP folks said they
did not user termcap or terminfo because it did have all the features
they needed -- bull cookies.

There is no explicit support for X in WordPerfect like their is
support for Sun's "native" Sunview.


I asked the net about this issue some time ago, and noone had any
ideas.  But if someone else knows of a way to get this to work let,
please me know.

What I really think might work is if I had an xterm that did vt220
emulation.  Does anyone know of such a beast?

That is my experience with WordPerfect so far.

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