leech@alanine.cs.unc.edu (01/13/89)
We have a cube here for evaluation, but virtually no docs
other than the online ones, so:
Can anyone tell me how to get a Terminal application running with
a window larger than 24x80? Also, how does the "vt100" emulation
supposedly provided by Terminal differ from the real thing? I have a
screen-oriented program which works fine on real vt100s but not under
Terminal. The problem I observe seems to be related to reverse
scrolling/delete line but I'm not certain yet.
Reply by email, please. Thanks!
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than you are.'' - Billy Grahamlgl@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence G Lundblade) (01/14/89)
A comment in the NeXT vt100 termcap entry says the vt100 entry modified to support the NeXT Terminal program, implying it's not quite a vt100 emulator. Presumably they'll fix the emulator. In the mean time one can copy the termcap entry from the NeXT to the system you rlogin to. (Hopefully it's UNIX). We've discovered no way to get a Terminal window of a different size. It would be nice if NeXT would combine Shell and Terminal in the way Sun did, along with the termcap hack to support various size windows. Laurence Lundblade U of Wash, Networks and Distributed Computing lgl@acs.washington.edu
louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (01/14/89)
Earlier, I asked this question and was told about the -Lines and -Columns options. Doing a strings on the Terminal program also reveals these options: Columns Lines Font FontSize WinLocH WinLocV MenuLocH MenuLocV Shell You can set these options in your defaults database; I have done % dwrite Terminal FontSize 11.5 % dwrite Terminal Lines 40 to set the defaults. To open sessions to other hosts, try % Terminal -Shell 'rlogin your.other.host' By the way, is there an easy to to get the network applications to query the domain name system? You can apparently frob with ypserv, but this seems like a huge hassle. If the various applications are linked with the shared libc.a, then you could replace gethostbyname() in the library. There is, however, no documentation on the 'mkshlib' program which I presume you need to use.. Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
olson@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (01/16/89)
there's a manpage for Terminal ... it's under 'terminal(1)'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Olson University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Internet: olson@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu -or- olson@mcs.anl.gov
leech@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) (01/17/89)
In article <37800004@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> olson@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes: > >there's a manpage for Terminal ... it's under 'terminal(1)'. Yes, it's not enough that nExT insists on sprinkling capitalization throughout the file system, there must be inconsistencies like this to make using the machine even more painful.