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- From: david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas)
- Subject: HP 9000/730 shopping list
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.150338.587@tms390.micro.ti.com>
- Keywords: hpterm termcap DMX
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Houston
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:03:38 GMT
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- I am migrating from an Apollo running Domain/OS to an HP 730 running HP-UX.
- I have a few questions:
-
- 1. Does anyone have a termcap entry for 'hpterm'? I need to be able to
- rlogin to Sun and Apollo machines and use vi.
-
- 2. I have DMX (DM-lite) installed, but no documentation. Is this normal,
- or do I have an incomplete package? Where do I get the documentation?
-
- 3. Does anyone have a recommendation for a simple (and cheap) tool that
- runs under HP-UX for preparing presentation materials (slides,
- overheads, foils, whatever you want to call them)?
-
- I have a very effective method that I have been using under Domain/OS
- for many years. I use a tiny markup language to select fonts (including
- icons), a program to convert this into a pad so I can preview the result,
- and another program to convert the pad into a gmf file that I can send
- to prf. Sounds complicated, but its actually very fast. Along with a
- lot of other pleasures, though, this will be going the way of Domain/OS.
-
- My guess is that there is probably some markup language (TeX?) that
- could be used to produce PostScript, and I could use GhostView to
- preview the result. I'm not opposed to WYSIWYG word-processors, but
- I find that most of them are overkill for this application.
- --
- David Thomas (david@wotangate.sc.ti.com or david@micro.ti.com)
- Texas Instruments (713)-274-2347
-
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- David Thomas Texas Instruments (david@wotangate.sc.ti.com) (713)-274-2347
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