Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aix:5928 comp.windows.x:37981
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!meaddata!riscy!phw
From: phw@meaddata.com (Pat Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problem with xterm on RS6000NN
Message-ID: <5048@meaddata.meaddata.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 13:42:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.202647.28977@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun24.225923.12558@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun25.155329.8527@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: usenet@meaddata.com
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Lines: 31

In article 5348 Mark Allender writes:
>My next question is why the hell is there a problem with this in the first place.
>I cannot for the life of me understand what is so damn difficult about getting 

Your point is well-taken, but you must first understand that xterm is a program
that has evolved from kluge piled on kluge. The one X application that is the
LEAST likely to port easily is xterm.

What is it that you want xterm to do - that aixterm doesn't do? Xterm has no
color support unless you hack the livin' bejaysus out of it. Or are you of the
opinion that you can't use a tool unless you've got the source?

Let me guess... You want to use xterm to run the C-Shell - right? Take the time
to learn aixterms' capabilities, and use the Korn Shell (or bash). You'll save
yourself a lot of grief, and you'll probably decide you're better off.

> Why AIX?

Why not. A better question is "Why Sun OS?" (You know... that crippled-Xenix
work-alike). Or why NCR Tower OS? I personally would like to see AIX succeed, just
to keep AT&T Unix developers awake.

-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect the opinions of my
employer, parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, pets or neighbors.
So there.

Pat Ward
phw@meaddata.com
uunet!meaddata!phw