AT&T VPIX (Simultask-386) Under Thomas Roell's X386

[Paul De Bra]

In article <1991Jun13.213923.23550 at cbfsb.att.com> dab at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (david.a.berk) writes:
>I recently brought up X386 on a AT&T 6386 running V.3.2.  When I 
>try to invoke vpix it just hangs.  Anyone have any ideas ?
>Can this work ?

Simultask will come up in X386, but it uses a different keymap which
interferes with the one used by X386.
As a result, all keys are shifted one position towards the right.
So in order to exit from Simultask you should try to type quit followed
by control-M (aka Enter, which moved off the keyboard).
Typing wioy followed by a-together-with-, (simulates control-M)
should do the trick.
The different keymap makes Simultask a bit hard to use :-(

Now, another problem with X386 i've noticed is that if you run cc
from an xterm some syntax-like info is displayed in the xterm while
cc is chewing on the c-source of whatever program you're compiling.
Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have an explanation, or, better,
a solution?
Fortunately the AT&T Open Look 2.0 xterm can be used with X386 so
one can at least use some xterm that doesn't exhibit this behavior.

Paul.
(debra at win.tue.nl, debra at research.att.com)