allender@cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender) (11/15/90)
I am looking for x-server source code that will emulate a tektronics terminal. (This request doesn't sound exactly right, but is what my boss told me, who doesn't have access to the net). We have a LAN running on a 386 box. we have the source for X, but he doesn't think that the server will support tektronics emulation, which our network does.. Any help would be appreciated. thanks, Mark Allender allender@cs.uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana We didn't like our basketball team anyway
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (11/16/90)
> I am looking for x-server source code that will emulate a tektronics > terminal. (This request doesn't sound exactly right, but is what my > boss told me, who doesn't have access to the net). Your boss is somewhat confused about just what an X server is. > We have a LAN running on a 386 box. we have the source for X, but he > doesn't think that the server will support tektronics emulation, > which our network does.. It seems unlikely that your network, per se, has anything to do with Tektronix terminal emulation; much more likely is that some user interface program that comes with your network package supports such an emulation. (Precision is all. :-) In the X world, the server is not responsible for emulating, or not emulating, any given type of terminal. The server just provides a way for *other* programs (called clients, not surprisingly) to display things. A client can, if it feels so inclined, provide some sort of terminal emulation. All the server cares about is what the client tells it to draw on the screen; it doesn't know and doesn't care why the client wants to draw what it does - whether it's emulating a terminal of some sort, making the commands up on its own, or what.... The MIT X distribution includes a client called xterm which, I understand, is capable of emulating some sort of Tektronix terminal. I don't normally use xterm, so I can't say what sort of Tektronix or how good the emulation is. (xterm is so standard that any vendor distribution of X that doesn't supply it, or something very much like it, can reasonably be considered seriously deficient....) I hope this helps dispel a little of the haze surrounding X for you (and your boss). If haze still remains, feel free to drop me a line directly and I'll have another stab at clearing it away. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen) (11/21/90)
In article <9011160716.AA29244@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes: |> > I am looking for x-server source code that will emulate a tektronics |> > terminal. (This request doesn't sound exactly right, but is what my |> > boss told me, who doesn't have access to the net). |> |> |> The MIT X distribution includes a client called xterm which, I |> understand, is capable of emulating some sort of Tektronix terminal. I |> don't normally use xterm, so I can't say what sort of Tektronix or how |> good the emulation is. (xterm is so standard that any vendor |> distribution of X that doesn't supply it, or something very much like |> it, can reasonably be considered seriously deficient....) |> xterm emulates a tek4014 and, while it isn't the greatest, seems to be adequate. I run a commercial application called SAS which knows how to talk to things like VT100's, tek4014's etc. Xterm is adequate for this. Don MacQueen macq@miguel.llnl.gov