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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X/Sunview, Open Windows 2.0 and Word Perfect
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.083343.23276@erbe.se>
Date: 26 Oct 90 08:33:43 GMT
References: <10207@ubc-cs.UUCP> <9010251100.AA21764@zardoz.noname>
Sender: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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In article <9010251100.AA21764@zardoz.noname>, don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar) writes:

|> 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.

I run WordPerfect in an xterm window and it works perfectly well. What one
has to do is to create a WPTERM description for xterm. I started with our
vt320 description to get the character set definitions mostly correct from
the start (ISO 8859/1). With some tweaking in the .Xresources file, I've been
able to get more or less the same keyboard functionality as on a PC. Unfortunately,
I can not give these definitions away, as we sell WordPerfect for UNIX and xterm
support is part of our value-added tape that we ship with all WordPerfect licenses.

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

Centuty Software has started to sell their TERM terminal emulation product for
X11. It emulates VT220 and a number of other terminals.

"mterm" is a freely available product from der Mouse that comes pretty close.
It is written as per a VT300 manual.

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