mcooper@sunb3.cs.uiuc.edu (08/21/90)
This is probably an easy question, but I'm new to this... I'm running an IBM RS6000 with Xwindows. I tend to open windows to other machines, which of course don't have the SLIGHTEST idea what kind of terminal 'aixterm' is. vt100 seems to work with some stangeness, but there has to be a better way. suggestions? email- I have a feeling this is WAY to easy to be of general interest.
hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) (08/22/90)
In article <42100006@sunb3> mcooper@sunb3.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >This is probably an easy question, but I'm new to this... > >I'm running an IBM RS6000 with Xwindows. I tend to open windows to other >machines, which of course don't have the SLIGHTEST idea what kind of terminal >'aixterm' is. vt100 seems to work with some stangeness, but there has to be a >better way. > >suggestions? > >email- I have a feeling this is WAY to easy to be of general interest. Nope, I just asked this a little while back. The answer I got (one that seems to be correct, too) is that "aixterm" is synonymous with "hft" (stands for High Function Terminal). You should have it on your system. -Hugo Hugo Calendar ...!ucbvax!ucscc!spica!hugo CompEng/Math Undergraduate 215 Weeks Avenue hugo@spica.ucsc.edu IBM RT AIX/Mach SysAdmin Santa Cruz, CA 95060 hugo@ucscd.bitnet Mac II ThinkC programmer USA (408) 425-5479
wlm@entwash.watson.ibm.com (Bill Moran) (08/22/90)
Yeah, if you have an RS6K, look in /lib/libtermcap, you'll notice that there is a termcap.src there which contains a def for aixterm (why can't IBM be normal just once?) anyway, an aixterm is just like an hft - don't ask. Why use aixterm? The real R4 xterm is easy to make run, use the real thing and avoid all the problems. Bill Moran
hleroy@irisa.fr (Hugues Leroy) (08/23/90)
on your remote hosts add in /etc/termcap:
ibm6154|aixterm|IBM 6154 Color displays:\
:am:bw:ms:xo:bs:\
:co#80:li#25:kn#5:\
:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:\
:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:al=\E[L:cd=\E[J:\
:ce=\E[K:ch=\E[%i%dG:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:im=\E[4h:k1=\E[001q:\
:k2=\E[002q:k3=\E[003q:k4=\E[004q:k5=\E[005q:\
:k6=\E[006q:k7=\E[007q:k8=\E[008q:k9=\E[009q:kb=\b:\
:kd=\E[B:kh=\E[H:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:nd=\E[C:\
:se=\E[m:so=\E[7m:sr=\E[T:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:\
:ko=nd,up,dc,ho,ei:
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Hugues Leroy, INRIA Rennes (France) // Hugues.Leroy@irisa.fr
------------------------------------------------------------chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret) (08/24/90)
On the RS6000 (I have been suffering with a few on our net for a while) you should create (IBM doesn't supply it) an applications defaults file, /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (nice of them to steal the class name of a good program), which contains at least the following if you want to get vt100-style xterm behavior. aixterm*termName : xterm aixterm*vt102 : true The programs xterm and aixterm are identical on the RS6000 and are not at all like the X11R4 xterm from MIT that we all know and love. If you don't specify the vt102 resource then aixterm tries to emulate the /dev/hft junk which I believe came into being on the RT. I dislike aixterm so much that I run a local xterm on my SUN with -e rlogin ... "You can't be compatible by being incompatible." ~chuck -- +--------------------+ Chuck Ocheret, Sr. Staff Engineer +---------------+ |chuck@APT.Morgan.COM| Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. |(212) 703-4474 | | Duty now ... |19th Floor, 1251 Avenue of the Americas|for the future.| +--------------------+ New York, N.Y. 10020 USA +---------------+