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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Wanted:  X-Server Source for Tektroniks emulation mode
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Date: 20 Nov 90 23:19:15 GMT
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In article <9011160716.AA29244@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
|> > I am looking for x-server source code that will emulate a tektronics
|> > terminal.  (This request doesn't sound exactly right, but is what my
|> > boss told me, who doesn't have access to the net).
|> 
|> 
|> The MIT X distribution includes a client called xterm which, I
|> understand, is capable of emulating some sort of Tektronix terminal.  I
|> don't normally use xterm, so I can't say what sort of Tektronix or how
|> good the emulation is.  (xterm is so standard that any vendor
|> distribution of X that doesn't supply it, or something very much like
|> it, can reasonably be considered seriously deficient....)
|> 
xterm emulates a tek4014 and, while it isn't the greatest, seems to be adequate.  I run a commercial application called SAS which knows how to talk to things like VT100's, tek4014's etc.  Xterm is adequate for this.

Don MacQueen
macq@miguel.llnl.gov