ejm@coyote.uucp (E.J. McKernan) (09/19/90)
I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? Thanks for any help. ejm -- ------------------------------------------- /|_|\ Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ ( . . ) ejm@coyote.uucp \ / ejm%coyote@arizona.edu
garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) (09/21/90)
In article <1990Sep19.070953.815@coyote.uucp> ejm@coyote.UUCP (E.J. McKernan) writes: >I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have >Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How >does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? >Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? I beleive the emulation must support scan codes in order to run VP/ix. That's why ISC supplies xpcterm. I use it here and it works fine under ISC's Xvga and Xv256 servers for X11R3. Century Software's xterm replacement probably does the same however, I'm not whether either of these run under Tom Roell's X11R4 server. Anyone want to comment? -gb -- Gary M. Blumenstein garyb@gallium
hoepfner@usun01.UUCP (Andreas Hoepfner) (09/24/90)
In <1990Sep19.070953.815@coyote.uucp> ejm@coyote.uucp (E.J. McKernan) writes: >I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have >Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How >does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? >Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? You have to run XPCTERM (/usr/bin/X11) to emulate a *DOS* window under X11 and start vpix in this window. *MOST* things run fine, and you can use the DOS funktion keys...... Hope this helps, Andreas (:-)
tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) (09/26/90)
In <90@usun01.UUCP> hoepfner@usun01.UUCP (Andreas Hoepfner) writes: >In <1990Sep19.070953.815@coyote.uucp> ejm@coyote.uucp (E.J. McKernan) writes: >>I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have >>Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How >>does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? >>Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? > You have to run XPCTERM (/usr/bin/X11) to emulate a *DOS* window > under X11 and start vpix in this window. *MOST* things run fine, > and you can use the DOS funktion keys...... > Hope this helps, > Andreas (:-) Not strictly true. VP/ix runs on a number of ASCII terminals which feature neither scancode ability, nor full PC graphics (e.g. DEC vt100). Since xterm is only a vt100 in disguise, you should be able to run VP/ix in an xterm window by saying it is a vt100 (or if you prefer, create the necessary VP/ix config files to drive the xterm). The advantages of xpcterm are a true PC font (both in terms of graphics characters and font styling). I don't know about scancode emulation - it's certainly reasonable to do, but I never looked. The function keys are emulated by ESC-1 ... on ASCII terminals. Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Dell Computer Corp. (UK), Bracknell | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"
savage@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Metallica Rules) (09/27/90)
In article <1990Sep19.070953.815@coyote.uucp> ejm@coyote.UUCP (E.J. McKernan) writes: >I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have >Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How >does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? >Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? I am in my dos partition at the moment, so cannot look directly. But having your termcap defined as AT386, or not using xterm, but atterm or something similer got rid of my problem. I was able to use the function keys and everthing else. Hope this helps. If not, tell me and I will open my unix partition and look to see what the fix was. Chuck savage%tigger@boulder.colorado.edu
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (09/28/90)
garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) writes: >In article <1990Sep19.070953.815@coyote.uucp> ejm@coyote.UUCP (E.J. McKernan) writes: >>I am running a 386 clone with 8M RAM and ISC 2.0.2. We also have >>Tom Roell's X11R4 IBM vga server online. My question is: How >>does one or has anyone got vpix to work in an xterm window? >>Does ISC X11 support vpix in an xterm window? >I beleive the emulation must support scan codes in order to run VP/ix. VP/ix also supports non-scancode terminals. The problem is, that even though TERM is not set to AT386, VP/ix still insists on using the console interface, which fails on this server in a regular xterm. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837
roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) (10/01/90)
>Not strictly true. VP/ix runs on a number of ASCII terminals which feature >neither scancode ability, nor full PC graphics (e.g. DEC vt100). Since xterm >is only a vt100 in disguise, you should be able to run VP/ix in an xterm >window by saying it is a vt100 (or if you prefer, create the necessary VP/ix >config files to drive the xterm). I think you are very near to the real problem. I thought, that it should be easy, to let vpix run under a normal xterm. If you choose a vt100 emulation, a IBM-PC compatible fonts (yes there is one available) and hack a file for the scan-code emulation, everything should be okay. Well, but theres a little problem: There are two modes for vpix to run: On a terminal or one console. If it runs on the console, vpix make some ioctl's to /dev/vt??. Some of them must fail, if an other programm (here our X-server) owns this device already. This would be no problem, if vpix would recognice, that it runs not on the console directly and instead handle the I/O like on a serial terminal. But vpix recoginces a terminal only, if the calling shell runs on a /dev/tty??. Perhaps Interactive could give me some hints, how to work aroud this bug... >The advantages of xpcterm are a true PC >font (both in terms of graphics characters and font styling). I don't know >about scancode emulation-it's certainly reasonable to do, but I never looked. >The function keys are emulated by ESC-1 ... on ASCII terminals. I think xterm is much better, cause never versions of xterm can now even handle color. - Thomas -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Mail: Thomas Roell (c/o Daniel Hernandez) Inst. f. Informatik / Technische Universitaet M"unchen Arcisstr. 21 / 8000 Munich 2 / Fed.Rep. of Germany E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de UUCP (when above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------