Terminals...

[Ethan Dicks]

On 9/20/10, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> In article <AANLkTikXa9qgOFhFazHp-MguLeJXzbO7L5AXxbJGZSRU at mail.gmail.com>,
>     Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> I haven't seen a VT525 in the wild, but now I know what to do to show
>> it off if I do get one (but now I'm also wondering what it would take
>> to get what you have working on a Tektronix 4105 since I have a couple
>> of those).
>
> It shouldn't take much with a proper termcap/terminfo entry for the
> 4105.

For the basic curses stuff, that's all pretty standard.  It was more
the color fonts and color graphics that I was figuring might take some
effort.

>  If you need escape codes, consult the 4105 programmer's
> reference on bitsavers:
> <http://bitsavers.org/pdf/tektronix/410x/070-4526-01_4105_PgmrRef_Sep83.pdf>

Thanks for the reference (it's always good to know where such things
are), but as unusual as it sounds, my terminals came with docs on
paper.

-ethan