[comp.unix.questions] Tipping to the Sun with Apollo. HALP!

csrobe@icase.arpa (Charles S. Roberson) (07/29/87)

Ok world, this *SHOULD* be an easy one.  We have a visiting scientist
over here who brought his own terminal.  An Apollo Workstation with its
own disk.  We have a Sun 3/50 network running BSD4.2 Sun Release 3.4.

What we would like, very simply, is to let him tip, via a serial line,
to our file server.  During this tip session he would like to have
full screen addressing (ie. run vi).  Does anyone know the simpliest
way to get the termcap set up so that processes on the Sun FS will
generate the proper control codes to address a window in the Apollo
WS?

We tried some weird variations with the Apollo running a vt100 emulator
with no real success.  We looked at the Apollo termcap file and saw
that the Apollo treated its terminals like vt132, but that didnt' seem
to help.

It is a rather old Apollo, i think a Domain DS3000(?).  We want the
fastest possible fix, but we would also like a more long range
solution for repeat visitors.  Could someone just send us an Apollo
entry for our Sun /etc/termcap file?

thanks now for your replies, especially the quick ones!
-chip
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