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From: ell@linus.UUCP (Edward L. Lafferty)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation on Sun
Message-ID: <677@linus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 10:37:16 EST
Article-I.D.: linus.677
Posted: Sun Mar  8 10:37:16 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 04:17:52 EST
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Reply-To: ell@linus.UUCP (Edward L. Lafferty)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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Keywords: VT100 Sun

The vt100tool distributed via mod.sources was for the sun-2 and will
not compile  on a sun3. However as I have posted earlier, it is
available via anonymous ftp in binary form from mitre-b-ed for a
sun-3. I will repeat the instructions here:

get the following files from the directory pub:

vt100tool.Z
vttest.c
<if you do not already have them from the earlier posting get the
following:>
fonts/*
README
v100tool.c  <for info only -- will not compile in your environment>

NOTE: if you don't have decompress there is an uncompressed version in
the directory but it will take a long time to transfer.

I will try to get a source port sometime soon.

as to the problems posted in the article using vtem, I have not used
the emulator from SMI but there is a certain amount of maturity that
the one I built has that the SMI version may not have yet. The vt100
does not work exactly the way it says in the manual and there are
programmers who use undefined features(?) which can screw up unwary
emulators. Most DEC built VMS applications are very tricky in their
use of this terminal, in particular the EDT editor family.