Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!steve-t From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP82000 and HP-Basic on remote displays Message-ID: <7370350@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Date: 28 Mar 91 20:05:26 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 42 I had hoped someone who knows more about this than I do would respond, but since it's been a while, I'll take a stab at part of this. I'm not involved with this software directly, so take this with a grain of salt. In /comp.sys.hp/ moore@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (W. Phillip Moore) // writes: | We have an HP9000-300, HP-UX 7.0, and would like to be able to display the | above two clients on X11 displays other than the console (Sun's, running | .. | HP-BASIC required the font hp8.8x16, which I simply aliased to 8x16. | However, is still complains about a "Starbase Error", whatever that is. Starbase is the graphics package for HP-UX machines (the one that knows all about the hardware). Since HP-BASIC is a port of the HP-BASIC standalone system, some parts of it are closely tied to HP graphics hardware features. Even when running on X, Starbase calls are used to support some of those features. Since your display machine is not running Starbase, these calls would fail. | Also, when displaying HP-BASIC on a Sun server, the characters are echoed | incorrectly. For example, typing "quit", echoes "W346" to the display. | The rest of the display looks normal, except that the font is slightly | different (of course). I think the problem here is in the keyboard routines in HP-BASIC, rather than the display routines. HP-BASIC standalone was closely tied to the HP keyboard layout, and I believe the initial implementation on HP-UX still takes keycodes (keyboard matrix locations) rather than character codes. It's extremely unlikely that what you get from another vendor's keyboard would match these values ... hence the problem. | Is there a solution to the above problems that I have missed in the manuals?? I don't think so. I think the folks who do HP-BASIC are aware of these problems, but I don't know what they have in the works. Consider all of my comments to be rumor and hearsay. | Thanks in advance. Sorry I don't have a solution to offer. Regards, Steve taylor NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY.