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- From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: termcap for hpterm
- Summary: xterm remote
- Keywords: xterm
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:42:25 GMT
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- In article <1egfn9INNl4@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> writes:
- >:it display on the HP (as one is supposed to do under X) you will be
- >:using the Sun's termcap facilities, not anything on the HP.
- >
- >Ever thought that the remote system where the termcap would be used
- >wouldn't be a Sun or wouldn't/couldn't run X? I connect to several
- >systems like that, and a working termcap I could deploy (either in
- >/etc/termcap or by redirecting my personal TERMCAP environment
- >variable) would be nice. Unreasonable?
-
- You know, you don't need the entire X suite to run xterm on a
- machine. Most machines (UNIX I assume) usually have an
- xterm laying about somewhere in the archives for you to snarf...
-
- What kinds of UNIX machines don't have X?
-
- Tony Burzio
- Arete Associates
- San Diego, CA
-