Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 05:45:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jbryant@tfs.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vt420 termcap needed (fwd) Message-ID: <199709240545.WAA03538@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709231821.NAA01912@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Sep 23, 97 01:21:24 pm
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> 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.
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