Hi Howard,
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:25:46PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I am totally confused wrt xterm after ploughing thru the doco.
I think that's because you're looking for something that isn't
there.
> I need an X capable terminal emulator that will emulate a Wyse 60
> especially wrt the function keys etc.
That's not "xterm", and I'm afraid that I don't know of such a
beastie, although it shouldn't be TOO hard to make one, given
that most of the actual functionality is already there in xterm.
> I have looked at man xterm and it says it emulates VT100/VT220.
Yup. These two became the basis for the ANSI standard for
terminal codes, and that pretty much blew away most of the old
vendor-specific code sequences, of which Wyse-60 was one.
> I have looked at /etc/termcap and can see a key mapping in there for Wyse
> 60
That's so that you can use vi and other curses applications when
talking to the system through a real, physical Wyse-60 terminal,
over a serial line.
> What I can't work out is how to get xterm to map the keys as per the Wyse
> 60. Am I looking in the wrong forest or just barking up the wrong tree?
Wrong tree, I'm afraid. You're looking for either a
specifically Wyse terminal emulator, or some sort of generic,
mappable terminal emulator. Xterm (and almost all of the
other terminal programs I know of, besides tn3270) is a
VT102/VT220/ANSI terminal emulator (with screen-size extensions,
missing some character glyphs, and missing the double-wide,
double-high text attributes).
What application is Wyse-60 specific? Can't you tell it to talk
to an ANSI terminal?
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Andrew
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