From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 23 22:45:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02969 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA02962 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA03538; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:45:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709240545.WAA03538@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: vt420 termcap needed (fwd) To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 05:45:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709231821.NAA01912@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Sep 23, 97 01:21:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > does anyone have a termcap entry for the vt420? A VT420 is functionally identical, for everything but graphic modes, to a VT320, which is functionally identical to a VT220, except because of the softROM is a hell of a lot slower than a VT220, and supports 9 bit instead of 8-bit-with-9th-bit-the-same-as-8th sixel graphics (which you will never use, in practice, because the termiinals support ISO8859-1 character sets (and the less useful DEC techinical character sets), as well as 7-bit NRCS's (National replacement Character Set). Are you expecting to program graphics or sixels via termcap? ...Didn't think so. 8-). VT4xx and VT3xx series terminals also support LAT-based session switching; however, since this is not documented anywhere publically, nor does FreeBSD have drivers for it, this particular feature is useless to you unless your terminal is connecting through a DEC-Server 2xx or better which is being booted via MOP-MOM off a VMS box (in which case the only way you're getting into your FreeBSD box is telnet, rlogin, or the undocumented X-on-TCP-to-X-on-DECNet gateway on Ultrix boxes). So tell FreeBSD it's a "vt220"; preferrably a "vt220am", assuming you have line wrap turned on (the factory default for the 2xx, 3xx, and 4xx terminals). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.