Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ucbvax!alphalpha.COM!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.COM (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Apollo termcap .. a dumb question Message-ID: <9001022320.AA00432@alphalpha.COM> Date: 2 Jan 90 23:20:10 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 31 > I know this may be a dumb question ... however > Is there an Apollo termcap available for other systems. The Apollo termcap is really just for the vt100 emulator. The common mistake is to think of pads as terminal emulators. They arn't, since workstations were replacing terminals, terminals would be obsolete right? :-). However, since the vt100 emulator *can* do more than 80x24, you ought to be able to gen up a termcap which supports a larger screen, and a script which brings up an emulator of that size. (Note, I haven't tested this, I'm just guess here.) Not pretty I admit, but... > I'm sure we are missing something very simple here but ... Nope, just the problems inherent with switching from a homogeneous to a heterogeneous world. Given the move to X I doubt that the pad/terminal problem will get a lot of attention. One can only hope for xterms which have more pad-like features. -kee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alphalpha Software, Inc. nazgul@alphalpha.com 148 Scituate St. Voice: 617/641-3805 Arlington, MA 02174 Autodial Fax: 617/641-3805 Handdial Fax: 617/641-38053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ nazgul@pro-angmar.cts.com, 617/641-3722 (BBS), 617/648-5938 (computer) and 617/646-7703 (work) all wait on NYNEX incompetency (4 months and counting). -------