egc@h.cs.cmu.edu (eddie caplan) (05/04/87)
NOTE: V.10R4 has anyone out there gotten the XTTY package to work for a microvax? in the release we have the spawned 'xterm' doesn't even parse the command line switches correctly. (from my perusal of the code, it looks like there needs to be changes to both the XTTY library and the xterm code). eddie caplan caplan@h.cs.cmu.edu (via seismo)
pjs@uw-june.UUCP (Philip J. Schneider) (05/05/87)
In article <1058@h.cs.cmu.edu> egc@h.cs.cmu.edu (eddie caplan) writes: >NOTE: V.10R4 > >has anyone out there gotten the XTTY package to work for a microvax? >in the release we have the spawned 'xterm' doesn't even parse the >command line switches correctly. (from my perusal of the code, it >looks like there needs to be changes to both the XTTY library and the >xterm code). > >eddie caplan >caplan@h.cs.cmu.edu (via seismo) I have wondered about this myself. I found an xterm on prang a while back that parsed the command line (the others didn't know about the flag designating the pty #), but I was never able to get input or output from it. (We have Release 3). The "standard" xterms seem to be totally ignorant of the XTTY stuff, forcing me to play "character manager" to get text i/o from/to windows. Anybody have any ideas besides "It'll be fixed in Version 11."? In fact, has ANYBODY got XTTY to work on a microvax (or any ideas why it might not work as is)? Thanks.
sundar@HERMES.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (05/05/87)
Date: 4 May 87 17:35:51 GMT From: h.cs.cmu.edu!egc@pt.cs.cmu.edu (eddie caplan) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Sender: xpert-request@athena.mit.edu NOTE: V.10R4 has anyone out there gotten the XTTY package to work for a microvax? in the release we have the spawned 'xterm' doesn't even parse the command line switches correctly. (from my perusal of the code, it looks like there needs to be changes to both the XTTY library and the xterm code). eddie caplan caplan@h.cs.cmu.edu (via seismo) Yes, you are right. You have to make a few changes to the vanilla distribution xtty and xterm to get the slave mode to work right. Also the xtty library creates its window separately, so if you have an application that wants to run terminal emulators in a sub window, you have to make mods (actually an addition) to Xlib and xterm. Since we use edmoy's xterm, I have twice sent xterm fixes+additions to edmoy who is taking care of xterm's distribution. Regarding the Xlib and Xtty mods, I can make the V10R4 mods (which I've checked on the Suns, but nowhere else) available to people in athena, if anybody wants it. -Sundar
asente@figaro.UUCP (05/05/87)
When xterm got changed, Xtty no longer worked. I sent out fixes for this last winter; I can mail diff files to anyone who wants them. The changes to xterm have, I believe, been incorporated into the latest and greatest version. I don't know about the Xtty changes. -paul asente asente@cascade.stanford.edu ...decwrl!labrea!cascade!asente