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From: naras@clio.stat.fsu.edu (B. Narasimhan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: A question regarding xterm on Sparcstations
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.140624.4260@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 14:06:24 GMT
Sender: naras@clio (B. Narasimhan)
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When I run an xterm client on my sparcstation, the TERM variable is
set to xterm and the TERMCAP variable is set to a bunch of sequences from
the /etc/termcap entry for xterm. My questions: 

Can xterm work directly with a sun terminal? Or can it only do via an
emulation of some other terminal such as the vt102?

Has anyone ever told xterm to use a sun terminal? (After all, the capabilities
of a sun terminal are known to sun machines.) 

I am asking these questions because of the map entries I set up in my .exrc
for use with vi. I have a few macros associated with function keys and I 
cannot get them to work when I use vi in an xterm window set up as above.
I know how to get around this problem---one that works is to explicitly map
the sequence each function key generates.
But my aim is to understand more about these sort of things.

Thanks.



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B. Narasimhan         Supercomputer Computations Research Institute &
naras@stat.fsu.edu    Dept. of Statistics, FSU, Tallahassee, FL 32306. 
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