Date   : Sun, 22 Oct 1989 21:24:01 GMT
From   : spdcc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (David Goodenough)
Subject: Personal to Tom Willett

Sorry to the rest of the net, but when I tried mailing, it bounced
Anyway, this might be of passing interest to people using QTERM

Tom - you say:
> I am using QTERM 4.1D to access the computers at Indiana University
> with my KAYPRO 2-84 computer.  I was wondering if there is any way
> for the VT100 emulator to access the graphics functions of my
> computer.

Not really. QTERM assumes nothing about the machine it's running
on, so it can't do the work.

>  Can I just extend the Termcap.

The termcap is designed to be put on a UNIX machine to configure it to
send codes that QTERM can make sense of. The problem with running in
VT100 mode is that escapes (and most other control characters) get
intercepted, so it's next to impossible to go behind the back of it
to get at the grafix on your Kaypro.

>  Is the termcap used?

Not by QTERM itself. If you have a UNIX machine, there is a way of putting
a termcap in a file, and using that instead of /etc/termcap. If you can
do that, then you'd be all set: just create a termcap entry for the Kaypro
itself. If you're not on a UNIX machine then there's not much to do, unless
the system has _SOME_ mechanism for configuring for other terminals.

>  In response to your
> request for computer overlays I am using basically the distributed
> overlay with the addition of the additional screen codes and the
> correction of a mistake in the break code ..... If you want I can
> send you a copy of my overlay.

I'd be glad to see it. Thanks in advance,

                        Yours,
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P.S. can you send me an E-mail address that I can try to use to
reach you. TIA