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From: horen@cadence.com (Jonathan Horen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: which terminal emulator do you use?
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.170918.6470@cadence.com>
Date: 7 Mar 90 17:09:18 GMT
References: <Mar.5.13.32.13.1990.4638@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Cadence Design Systems (TechPubs Group)
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In article <Mar.5.13.32.13.1990.4638@porthos.rutgers.edu> marantz@porthos.rutgers.edu (Roy Marantz) writes:
>I'm trying to findout which terminal emulator people use.  I'm
>interested in what is being done for use with OpenWindows (what a
>misnomer :-|) Below are my comments on the ones I've tried so far.
>
>psterm (sun's) - works but scrolls slowly and insists on scaling the
>	font when the window is resized.  doesn't support scrollbars
>xterm (sun or MIT X) - faster than psterm on screen updating, scales
>	number of rows/columns when window is resized (yea), not good
>	for use on a slow remote machine (i.e. uncovering the window
>	asks the remote side to repaint, this takes too long), doesn't
>	understand the L keys (L5 and L7) 
>psterm (Grasshoppers) can't get it to work :-( probably because of
>	font handling changes.
>
>Anyone have any other's I should try?  I sure do wish there was one
>that worked in every situation.  I find it hard to believe that these
>are the "state of the art" when it comes to terminal emulations programs.

You say you're interested in what is being done for use with OpenWindows?

Just use either of Sun's excellent OpenWindows/XView clients -- Shelltool
or CmdTool!

OpenWindows is the greatest thing since SunView. Don't leave home without
it.

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