Color xpcterm

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us
Tue Nov 27 14:35:19 AEST 1990


In article <311 at abhg.UUCP> you write:
>In article <1990Nov25.180609.2799 at iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>> The xpcterm shipped with ISC 2.2 does in fact support color....
>
>This isn't quite what I'm looking for.  I'm running vpix in an xpcterm
>window.  I want text that is in color in vpix to be color in the xpcterm
>window. ...

It appears to be a vp/ix limitation.  If you could persuade vp/ix to send
the appropriate escape codes, xpcterm would be happy to display in colors.
>From reading the vp/ix manual and from some experimentation, it appears that
there's no way to tell vp/ix to send color information to a terminal other
than a direct-mapped PC console.  Bummer.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
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