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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't the hpterm have resizable text?
- In-Reply-To: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18: 36:55 GMT
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- <1992Nov16.183655.14131@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:31:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.183655.14131@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
-
- > Perhaps I'm missing the point of this discussion but why aren't you
- >people just using the real xterm? As far as I can tell
-
- > a) hpterm doesn't do anything xterm doesn't.
-
- * National language support: even though the 8.0 xterm finally
- supports 8-bit characters it still doesn't work right with non-US
- keyboards ... (OK, I presume that's been patched by now, after
- everybody's gotten used to hpterm); when I occasionally need national
- 7-bit characters hpterm supports them easily, in xterm I need a hacked
- font (and 16-bit character support for xterm isn't even planned as far
- as I know).
-
- * Softkey support (very nice in certain HP's programs). Also, some
- HP programs don't understand arrow keys in xterm but do in hpterm
- (like elm -- yes, I know, I could junk HP's elm and get the PD one).
-
- * I like the ability to scroll past pages with Prev/Next/arrow keys:
- I find it much easier than using the scrollbar.
-
- > b) xterm does many things that hpterm doesn't.
-
- True enough. Alas, you can't have everything.
- So, I use both according to the task at hand.
- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
-