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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: How to run DECwindows clients on non-dec workstations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.192635.26354@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
- References: <1993Jan11.180930.11077@news.nd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:26:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.180930.11077@news.nd.edu>, losecco@undpdk.hep.nd.edu (John LoSecco) writes:
- >We have numerous non dec workstations, sun, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP.
- >We would like to run DECwindows clients, such as DECterm on these
- >workstaions. The problem is DEC provides no ``supported'' way to map
- >the keyboard on the VMS version. (The ultrix manual even includes an
- >example to do remapping.)
-
- Can we get some terminology straight. The client is the computer which
- actually runs the software. The server is the display system (computer or
- X-terminal) that displays the output. A client running DECterm will, by
- definition, always be a VAX. The server can be a Whateverthehell Model 200.
-
- >
- >The biggest, but not only, problem is DEC's use of the non standard rubout
- >for delete and not the backspace. Most of our systems are unix or PC based
-
- That's odd, my cubey's IPC, as well as all the other Suns I know of, use DEL as
- delete and ^H to annoy us. :-)
-
- >and come with keyboards that emit backspace. The only solution DEC
- >would propose is to use xmodmap to remap the server's keys. This blows away
- >most local use and use on other unix clients, without a great deal of remapping.
-
- The LK201 emits a backspace as (I think) F12.
- >
- >Surely, since DECwindows originated with xwindows, there is an ``unofficial''
- >way to remap the client keyboard.
-
- Once again, please be clear on what you mean by client. If you mean server
- (displayer), then the mapping should not really be a problem, since you are
- really using the HP/Sun/IBM(arrgh) keyboard, and all have a true DEL key. If
- you are running xterm on the Unix box and displaying on the VAXstation, there
- should not be a problem using F12.
- >
- >Our present access to vax is via telnet in an xterm window with a remapped
- >keyboard. We would like to use X too.
-
- Part of the problem is the sloppy terminology. But we get to live with it now.
- >
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