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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: psterm broken?
Keywords: psterm, tek4014
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.005445.7422@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:54:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.211321.15196@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb1.211321.15196@nas.nasa.gov>, browning@nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning) writes:
|> Is "psterm -t tek4014" known to be broken, in that 4014 graphics don't
|> work?  If so, is it fixed in 3.3?  I suppose I could use X once I get
|> 3.3.  If it's already known to be broken I won't bother our support
|> people about it.  Am I considerate or what?
|> 
Yes it's known to be "broken" and no it isn't fixed in 3.3.  Psterm emulates
different terminals by attempting to grok what it should do from the termcap
or terminfo description.  It makes no attempt to emulate graphics capabilities
of any of the terminals.  In fact I don't think graphics capabilities are
even very well described in termcap/terminfo.
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