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Re: Linux Terminal Emulation
===> Aharon Schkolnik writes on Mar 14, 9:34am :
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===> Subject : Linux Terminal Emulation
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=>
=> Hi all.
=>
=> Here's the problem:
=>
=>
=> I have a Hebrew graphic application running on a VAX. The
=> graphics are VT100 graphics. I want to be able to telnet from my Linux
=> system to the VAX and run the application. When I do that now, I don't
=> get Hebrew, and the graphics are all screwed up. I am using a Hebrew
=> font under X. When I do the same thing - telnet in - from a Digital
=> Unix station, it works.
=>
=>
=> Any ideas?
=>
=> TIA.
=>
=>
=>
=> --
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=> and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | Aharon@Matat.Health.Gov.IL
=> is great, and the Master of the house is |
=> impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 |
==>
===> end of the message of Aharon Schkolnik.
Even if you use a Hebrew font and the VAX software uses 8 bit Hebrew, this
may not be enouph.
The VAX software probably uses Hebrew escape sequences that are not part
of the VTxxx usual escape codes. If this is the case you will need a
terminal emulator that supports this.
A free terminal emulator that has partial support of this is xhterm, look at:
ftp://ssl.cs.technion.ac.il/pub/Hebrew/progs/xhterm/ or at:
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil/Hebrew/progs/
There are comercial Hebrew terimanl emulators by El-Mar and by Unix vendors.
I don't know of a commercial version for linux. You can always run the
terminal emulator from a commercial unix machine and display it on your linux
box, this works for me.
Another problem may be that your VAX software assumes that you have a DEC
keyboard and usesd its special keys like PF4 & Remove.
I do not have a solution for this, if someone has key mapping files that
solve this for X11 on Linux, I will be happy to get them.
Gili