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- From: mjo@slee01.srl.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: termcap for hpterm
- Message-ID: <1ekfeoINNc4d@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 04:54:48 GMT
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- Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
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- In article <41381@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g.
- adair) writes:
-
- :>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...
-
- Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of dialup connectivity,
- timesharing supercomputers, and Internet firewalls, all of which don't
- necessarily like X running atop them. Or are you suggesting that I go
- the way of X-Remote/PPP, persuade my Masscomp people that yes, I'm
- special, I MUST run X off their real-time controls system, and then
- later in the day, hypnotize my router to the outside world to let X
- pass through just for me, because I'm special and must run X on my
- puerile HP or life as we know it will surely fade away.
-
- :What kinds of UNIX machines don't have X?
-
- ...and then go off and build X for a Fortune 32:16. <laughs>
-
- As I indicated before, I think it would be reasonable for HP, if they had
- a true "hpterm" termcap entry, to include it with their OS. Taking
- your line of reasoning, /usr/lib/terminfo on an HP should be a whole
- heckuva lot smaller than it is, since all those terminal entries for
- Unix systems can go away since they run X.
-
-
- ...Mike
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