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From: earle@jplopto.UUCP
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Subject: Case of the broken VT100Tool
Message-ID: <4481@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 01:49:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 01:49:34 1987
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Reply-To: earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle)
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Keywords: vt100tool  screen  libsuntool.a  broken

Some users where I consult have need for a/the VT100Tool.  So I pulled it
off of uunet.  Lo and behold, well gosh darn it Vern, lookie here.  The damn
thing sucks in one of the window libraries (/usr/lib/libsuntool.a), and rips
out some of the object modules inside, and replaces them with its own.
Needless to say, this makes VT100Tool horribly SunOS release dependant; if
libsuntool.a changes in some way, there stands the possibility that this
will no longer work.  Alas, such is the case; `vt100tool' will no longer
load due to incompatibilities with the newer (SunOS 3.4) libsuntool.a - it
generates unresolved references at `ld' time.  So, the questions are:

(1) Ed Lafferty (ell@mitre-bedford.ARPA), are you out there?  Wot's the deal?

(2) If indeed the problem is unresolvable, is this an acceptable substitute -
    running a shelltool with -Wh 24 -Ww 80, and running the `screen' program
    as the argument to the shelltool (with `<< VT100Tool >>' as the label)?
    `screen' purports to have VT100 emulation with ANSI 3.64 extensions, and
    indeed seems to do so (haven't built `vttest' yet to see), but I notice
    the termcap entries for `screen' and `vt100' are quite different.  (Oliver
    Laumann, are you there?)  Since I've never seen the original `vt100tool'
    in action, I don't know what this substitute is missing (other than the
    obvious fact it doesn't handle alternate graphics character sets); to
    offset any defficiencies you get the multiplexed tty sessions inside the
    quasi-vt100tool ...

	Greg Earle		earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV
	Sun Consultant		earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA	[aka:]
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