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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpcvusn!hpcvxjb.cv.hp.com!jbb
  3. From: jbb@hpcvxjb.cv.hp.com (Jim B. Byers)
  4. Subject: Re: Why doesn't the hpterm have resizable text?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.014314.2134@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com>
  6. Sender: nobody@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com (Nobody - UID must be 99999)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: hpcvxjb.cv.hp.com
  8. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
  9. References: <Bxo9q2.1xp@scd.hp.com> <1992Nov14.021807.2972@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov14.063119.19608@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Nov16.183655.14131@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  10. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:43:14 GMT
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  14. |>       a) hpterm doesn't do anything xterm doesn't.
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  16. It is needed when connecting to an application (such as on an HP 3000)
  17. or other terminal based applications that are written tightly around the
  18. capabilities of a HP terminal.
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  20. Jim Byers
  21.                         Life is like a simile.
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  23.                                   -Steve Monson
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  29. >       b) xterm does many things that hpterm doesn't.
  30. |>       c) HP supplies xterm as part of its standard distribution.
  31. |>       d) HP supports xterm.
  32. |> 
  33. |> If I'm wrong on any of the above, I would love to know about it.
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  35. |>                 Marc R. Roussel
  36. |>                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
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