misko@abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) (11/25/90)
Does anyone know if there is a color xpcterm available? It would
be nice to be able to run Turbo Debugger and the Turbo IDE under
xpcterm, and yet still get the different colors. Perhaps there is
a way with the current xpcterm, but I can't find it.
If anyone knows of a way to get color "text" DOS programs to work
in color under xpcterm, I'd appreciate the assistance. Thanks.
Bill Miskovetz
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abhg!misko@lll-winken.llnl.govjohnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (11/26/90)
In article <310@abhg.UUCP> misko@abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) writes: >Does anyone know if there is a color xpcterm available? The xpcterm shipped with ISC 2.2 does in fact support color. It accepts the same escape codes as the AT386 console driver, though the terminfo description they ship for xpcterm doesn't mention them. Try setting your TERM type to AT386. Some of the colors are so close to each other (cyan and white, particularly) that they are hard to read, though you should be able to fix that by setting resources appropriately. Also, it draws color screens comsiderably slower than black and white. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl "Typically supercomputers use a single microprocessor." -Boston Globe
misko@abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) (11/27/90)
In article <1990Nov25.180609.2799@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: > The xpcterm shipped with ISC 2.2 does in fact support color. It accepts the > same escape codes as the AT386 console driver, though the terminfo > description they ship for xpcterm doesn't mention them. Try setting your > TERM type to AT386. This isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'm running vpix in an xpcterm window. I want text that is in color in vpix to be color in the xpcterm window. If I run the same application from it's own vt, the color works fine, but xpcterm seems to emulate a monochrome PC display. Bill Miskovetz {uunet!lll-winken, apple!mathworks}!abhg!misko misko@mathworks.com abhg!misko@lll-winken.llnl.gov
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (11/27/90)
In article <311@abhg.UUCP> you write: >In article <1990Nov25.180609.2799@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >> The xpcterm shipped with ISC 2.2 does in fact support color.... > >This isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'm running vpix in an xpcterm >window. I want text that is in color in vpix to be color in the xpcterm >window. ... It appears to be a vp/ix limitation. If you could persuade vp/ix to send the appropriate escape codes, xpcterm would be happy to display in colors. From reading the vp/ix manual and from some experimentation, it appears that there's no way to tell vp/ix to send color information to a terminal other than a direct-mapped PC console. Bummer. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl "Typically supercomputers use a single microprocessor." -Boston Globe
dma@pcssc.com (Dave Armbrust) (11/28/90)
In article <9011262235.AA24745@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >In article <311@abhg.UUCP> you write: >>In article <1990Nov25.180609.2799@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >>> The xpcterm shipped with ISC 2.2 does in fact support color.... >> >>This isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'm running vpix in an xpcterm >>window. I want text that is in color in vpix to be color in the xpcterm >>window. ... > >It appears to be a vp/ix limitation. If you could persuade vp/ix to send >the appropriate escape codes, xpcterm would be happy to display in colors. >From reading the vp/ix manual and from some experimentation, it appears that >there's no way to tell vp/ix to send color information to a terminal other >than a direct-mapped PC console. Bummer. > There must be someway this can be done as I have already seen it done. The product is called the Un-Terminal which is basically a 'console' look-a-like. With this 'terminal' you set TERM=ansi and it works great in full color and it is also full graphics. For an EGA version it cost only about $700 per terminal including multi-port board. (BTW they also have VGA and monocrome versions). I have personally setup a 6 user all color/graphics system with vp/ix using theses 'un-terminals'. BTW alt-F1 through alt-F10 also works just like the console! You really can not tell these terminals from the console unless you look at the tty numbers! Dave Armbrust | uunet!pcssc!dma PC Software Systems | dma@pcssc.com 2121 Cornell Street | Phone: (813)365-1162 Sarasota, FL 34237 | Closing the barn door when a dead gift horse is in mid-stream won't make him drink.
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (11/29/90)
In article <1990Nov27.232342.4426@pcssc.com> dma@pcssc.com (Dave Armbrust) writes: >[re wanting color under vp/ix on an xpcterm:] >>From reading the vp/ix manual and from some experimentation, it appears that >>there's no way to tell vp/ix to send color information to a terminal other >>than a direct-mapped PC console. Bummer. >There must be someway this can be done as I have already seen it done. >The product is called the Un-Terminal which is basically a 'console' >look-a-like. Indeed, it looks so much like the console that vp/ix can treat it as a direct-mapped PC console, and can write directly to the screen memory. There are several sources for such things, SunRiver makes one as well. The original question was whether it was possible to have vp/ix send color info to a serial terminal such as xpcterm emulates, and the answer appears still to be no. Still a bummer. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl "Typically supercomputers use a single microprocessor." -Boston Globe