Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!ames!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VLT docs on ucbvax are bad Message-ID: <12490@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 88 00:06:14 GMT References: <12898@cisunx.UUCP> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 28 In article <12898@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >In article wn0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (William Nichols) writes: >>BTW I have been using VLT as a terminal on a VAX runder VMS. It has some >>problems though when I run applications using the DI3000 graphics package. It >>works fine when the di3000 device type is set to tek4010, but when the device > >I have a graphics program I wrote to address a tek 4106 or 4107 >terminal. I have no idea how these relate to the 4010 or 4014 or any >other tek terminal. Is one a subset of the other, or are they >completely different? Bottom line, will VLT work with this? The Tek 4010 and 4014 are "monochrome" vector displays. As such, programs such as VLT and A-Talk III do emulate all of the 4010/4014 features except defocused mode. The Tek 4105 is the low-end "color" tek vector machine. The tek 4107 adds "surfaces" and an extended command set. Both feature integrated graphics and ANSI emulation on separate or the same screen. VLT emulates only the simpler tek 4105 routines, move pen, draw, set color, set colormap and set pattern (this one is not fully implemented). That's it. Which means that most 4105-4107 compatible commercial programs won't work with it. If you write a program that uses ONLY the above commands, VLT is for you. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=