Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

[Ariel Burbaickij]

> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:53:51AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> > > > I suppose what I'm suggesting is that you run cygwin/X and use xdm
> to
> > > > display your Sun desktop on your PC, then you can have Sun terminals
> > > > as you want.
> > >
> > > dtterm will display remotely - I don't recall if sun-cmd will (some of
> > > those clients don't).
> > >
> > How would they know?
> 
> The terminology doesn't come to mind: something to the effect that
> some of the older Sun clients only run in the frame buffer.  (There
> are other issues with some other features - there are fonts that don't
> display remotely because they're Sun-proprietary and encrypted in some
> way).  Just because it's on the workstation's X display doesn't mean
> it's usable from a remote workstation.
> 
> > Certainly all the Sun terminals work here where I'm displaying my SUn
> > desktop on a PC using xdm.
> 
> > Yes, I realised that, but what I said is where rxvt 'came from' as it
> > were.
> 
> Where it 'came from' is more than that - it discarded all of Xt (the
> resource mechanism).  Originally all of rxvt's optional features were
> hardcoded - compile-time-only.  It has some ability to read resource files
> (which is not really interpreting the patterns compatibly with Xt), but
> that came a few years later.
> 
> Omitting Xt is the major part of reducing size (but most of that is shared
> memory).  Also since it doesn't use Xt, some of the ways it manipulates
> the graphics are done differently (sometimes a good thing, sometimes now).
> 
> The comment in rxvt's manpage about Tektronix emulation has been obsolete
> for several years (see xterm's changelog to note when I made it optional).
> 
> > > > What do you need sun-cmd or dtterm for?
> > >
> > > it's probably what he's using right now.
> > >
> > He said ne *needed* them for some things.  I use a sun-cmd for one
> 
> yes, but most people who say they *need* a particular terminal type
> don't know enough about the topic to say exactly why.

I need it because some old applications I  need to use have the terminal
hardcoded in some obscure scripts. Surprisingly though, as it looks like
"ansi" is also pretty much fine, so, guys, thank you very much for your help
and interest in the topic. Stay tuned ;-)

With Best Regards and Thank you for your help  
this terminal type in some 

> > particular ancient application which is more functional (and needs
> > fewer keystrokes to do some things) in a sun-cmd window than an xterm.
> 
> I seem to recall that some of Sun's installs hardcoded "sun" into the
> $TERM value (that's recent - gripes about Solaris 9).
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> http://invisible-island.net
> ftp://invisible-island.net
> 

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