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- Q T E R M - Q U E R Y T E R M I N A L
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- Version 5.0
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- Qterm is a program that queries terminals to find out what kind of
- terminal is responding. It is useful to automagically define your
- terminal type. It prints the name of the terminal (compatible,
- hopefully, with a termcap/terminfo name) such as "vt100" to standard
- output. See the manual for details.
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- The major changes in these version of qterm is a re-write of command
- line parsing and the options qterm accepts. I've written a new,
- "generic" command line parsing package called "options" which is
- included as part of this distribution of qterm. (See the options.3
- man page for details on programming with the options package.) Qterm
- now has a totally new set of (hopefully) clear and concise options.
- The old command line options are still accepted if qterm is compiled
- with OPT_COMPAT defined (see Makefile). WARNING: Some of the old
- options conflict with the new options. i.e. If OPT_COMPAT is
- defined, "qterm -file foo" does not do what you think it will. This
- is parsed as "qterm -f ile foo".
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- Qterm was written under 4.[23] BSD and will probably run without
- modification on other Berkeley Unix systems. This version has also
- been tested under UTS 2.1 which is a System V.3 derivative. It was
- compiled with "USG5" defined and setting $(LIBS) to "-lPW". (See
- Makefile for more info). It should work on other System V platforms.
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- It has been running at one point or another here at USC on:
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- Sun-3, Sun-4, Sun386i's under SunOS 3.X, 4.0, 4.0.3, 4.1, 4.1.1
- Alliant's under Concentrix 3.X, 4.X, 5.X
- IBM RT's under ACIS 4.2 and 4.3
- DEC VAX & DEC RISC under Ultrix 2.2, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1
- 4.[23]BSD (VAX)
- 4.3BSD [MORE/bsd] (HP)
- Amdahl UTS (System V.3) 2.1
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- If you have Internet access, the latest and greatest version of qterm
- is available from "usc.edu" via anonymous ftp in the file
- /pub/qterm.shar. I update this file whenever there are any changes,
- so it's bound to be newer than a copy from any other source.
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- Michael A. Cooper, University Computing Services, U of Southern California
- INTERNET: mcooper@usc.edu PHONE: 213-740-2957
- UUCP: ...!uunet!usc!mcooper BITNET: mcooper@gamera
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