Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

[Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>]

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?

Certainly all the Sun terminals work here where I'm displaying my SUn
desktop on a PC using xdm.

> > For what it's worth I have used Solaris platforms for development for
> > many years but I weaned myself off the Sun proprietory terminal
> > emulators very early on.  I've standardised on rxvt (which is
> > essentially an xterm without tektronix graphics) and find that there
> > is very little I can't do with that.
> 
> more than that actually (both xterm and rxvt have features that the other
> lacks - I'm biased of course, and find that the features that xterm has
> that rxvt lacks are generally more useful than the corresponding set of
> features in rxvt absent in xterm).
> 
Yes, I realised that, but what I said is where rxvt 'came from' as it
were.

> > 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
particular ancient application which is more functional (and needs
fewer keystrokes to do some things) in a sun-cmd window than an xterm.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)