Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!kalliope!luis From: luis@titan.hbar.rice.edu (Luis Soltero) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: X.V10R4 + W.G.E + Bell Tech + uPort + more stuff.... Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 88 00:30:55 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Rice University Lines: 51 Things on the X front have been very quiet in this news group for some time, so... i thought i would write this, provide some info, ask some questions and see if i could get the ball rolling again. First item: I finally found a vanilla version of X.V10R4. it took some doing since everyone has "rm -r"'ed X.V10R4 from their systems. anyway i have made the MIT vanilla distribution available via anonymous ftp to titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30). there are some other x10 goodies on titan as well. look for things starting w/ x in the ~ftp/public directory. i am willing to archive x10 code, so if you have some, send me mail and i will put it on titan. most of the code will take some work to get running. xdvi ports easily, it however is the worst dvi previewer i have ever seen. anyone out there know if there is a better x.v10 previewer out there? i have discovered settimer(3?) + some of the other berkeley time related routines have been implemented in the X10 library (maybe its the -lnsl_s library) but not documented. i uploaded the missing include files from a bsd system, compiled and was very surprised to see no link errors. Second item: locus dosmerge under x.v10r4. works fine. i have remapped my keyboard using Xkeymap and keycomp. using trial and error i have discovered what a lot of the scan codes are for the x keyboard. remapping the keys to the escape code sequences documented in the dosmerge manual has given me use of all the functions keys arrow keys home, up, end, pgdn, ins gray +-, etc.... does anyone have docs describing what the scan codes are for ALL the keys? (demitry can you hear me?). dosmerge does not use the vt100(xterm) block drawing characters. i thought i would be a simple thing to hack at the xterm code and turn it into a wy60 terminal emulator. unfortunately the vanilla xterm in the mit distribution does not compile. the port looks like a dificult one. so, my next question is... does anyone have sysV xterm source? (demitry can you hear me?) i hear thru the rumor mill that locus is working on a xv11 version of dos merge which will allow dos applications to do graphics to an x window. anyone have details? which brings me to my last item: How is the W.G.E x.v11 port coming along? did bell find the x guru they where looking for to finish the port? in closing i will say that i have really enjoyed my W.G.E/X10 graphics display system. i don't know how i ever got by w/ out windows. i look forward to hearing from you net landers. cheers.... --luis@titan.rice.edu