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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])