rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (02/23/91)
I use the NeXT to dial in to the office where we run Wyse 60s on most ports. I have an application for the Wyse 60 that uses uEmacs to display different sorts of client data in different windows using the 43 line capability of the Wyse. Terminal doesn't do this, and I wouldn't be able to read it if it could. (Who selects these font sizes? Must be some 20 year old with great eyes!) Anyhow, the usefulness of the NeXT for dialing the office is greatly diminished. Are there other terminal programs out there that can provide more lines of text and larger fonts? -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (02/23/91)
In article <1991Feb22.170142.10676@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >I use the NeXT to dial in to the office where we run Wyse 60s on most >ports. I have an application for the Wyse 60 that uses uEmacs to display >different sorts of client data in different windows using the 43 line >capability of the Wyse. Terminal doesn't do this, and I wouldn't be >able to read it if it could. (Who selects these font sizes? Must be There should be no problem for that. e.g. on our SUNs I do the following to get a nice big window remotly: I resize my terminal window, log in with kermit, and then when at the shell prompt, I do the following: % set term=vt100 % stty rows 66 where 66 happens to be the number of lines that I'm using. So you would have to resize the terminal window to 43 lines and use 43 instead of 66. There might be some different commands on the WYSE, but there should be no problem in principle. The font size you can alter with the font panel in 2.0 and with the dwrite command in 1.0 (if I remember correctly like that): % dwrite Terminal NXFixedPitchFontSize nn where nn is the point size. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
robertl@rlaferla.lotus.com (Robert La Ferla) (02/24/91)
The NeXT supplied Terminal.app will do exactly what you want it to. I am under the impression that you are running NeXTStep 1.0. It really doesn't matter but I am running 2.0. All you need to do is: 1. Determine which termcap entry you need for your terminal. Are you using 42 line mode or 42 line with status line. I assume it is the latter because you mentioned 43 lines in your message. % grep -i wyse /etc/termcap | grep 42 # wyse-60 in 42 line mode wO|w60-42|wyse60-42:\ # wyse 60 in 42 line mode with status line wP|w60-42-s|wyse60-42-s:\ 2. Set your term variable in your .login to the termcap entry you determined above. If in doubt, type "man 5 termcap" for more information. 3. Set your Preferences for Terminal to reflect the 42 or 43 lines. This may be different depending on what version of NeXTStep you are running. In any case, it's fairly simple. Under 2.0, you should be able to set the terminal size (rows and columns) via the graphic user interface. (Select Info->Preferences) Under 1.0, you need to set a dwrite variable. See % dwrite Terminal Rows 43 (or 42) 4. If you want to change the font size, you must either set it via Info->Preferences under 2.0 or with a dwrite under 1.0. The dwrite under 1.0 should be: % dwrite Terminal NXFixedPitchFontSize nn (where nn is the point size) You also want a fixed font such as Courier or Ohlfs. % dwrite Terminal NXFixedPitchFont Courier Robert La Ferla Lotus Development Corporation
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (03/06/91)
In article <65961@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >In article <1991Feb22.170142.10676@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >>I use the NeXT to dial in to the office where we run Wyse 60s on most >>ports. I have an application for the Wyse 60 that uses uEmacs to display >>different sorts of client data in different windows using the 43 line >>capability of the Wyse. > >I resize my terminal window, log in with kermit, and then when at the >shell prompt, I do the following: > >% set term=vt100 >% stty rows 66 That must be a BSDism. SysV doesn't recognize stty rows. >The font size you can alter with the font panel in 2.0 and with the >dwrite command in 1.0 (if I remember correctly like that): That was useful information. A number of people mentioned dwrite. What I ended up doing was setting up a bigscreen Terminal and modifying termcap and terminfo on the SysV machine to get a 43 line vt100. Everything worked fine. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us
hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (03/14/91)
it should be setenv LINES 66; I use this both in tcsh and csh when logging in from my NeXT to the HP-9000/370-345 in my office. Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET