From: mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 7:49 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: current Xterm variant ported to OpenVMS

I've just completed a port of the current Xterm version to OpenVMS.
It isn't quite as slick as DECTERM, but at least it's reasonably quick on
a DS10 with an Elsa card.

The port is of version 1.22 from:

  http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.html

It works *much* better than the previous OpenVMS version, which is 
confusingly called 2.01, even though is is years older than 1.22.

Pick up the full distribution, along with compatible XMU and XAW3D
library files from:

  http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/pub/SOFTWARE/XTERM_VMS_122.ZIP

The distribution includes a binary for OpenVMS 7.2-1 with DW 1.2-5.

These all seem to work, at least "mostly"

  VT emulation 80 chars and 132 chars
  Tek emulation
  PRINT screen
  cut/paste

There is currently no command logging enabled and the XMU and XAW3D bits
are linked in statically.  It should be possible to get the X11KIT to work 
if you can figure out why the _XA_ bits aren't showing up in the shared 
library.

Copy the XTERM.DAT file for your SYS$SYSROOT:[DECW$DEFAULTS.USER] directory
to pick up reasonable fonts.

Caution:  if you turn on num_lock it blocks the application keypad!

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech 
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