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From: don@zardoz.coral.COM (Don Dewar)
Subject: Word Perfect function keys for x windows
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Date: 9 Apr 91 11:40:41 GMT
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) Date: 8 Apr 91 21:30:16 GMT
) From: uunet!auspex.auspex.com!guy (Guy Harris)
) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
) Subject: Re: Word Perfect function keys for x windows
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) 
) >Since WordPerfect doesn't support X Displaystations currently, you will need
) >some package to help you configure the NCD to work like a dumb terminal (yuk).
) 
) Well:
) 
) 1) NCDs, as far as I know, have a VT100 emulator built in; it can be used
)    either with a serial port, or with a "telnet" session;
) 
) 2) I'm told there's this thing called "xterm" that runs under X, and
)    that emulates a VT102; heck, it might even let you run dumb-terminal
)    applications under X on an NCD. :-)
) 
) 

You can indeed run WordPerfect under xterm.  However, with no access to
any function keys (except the four that were standard with the original
vt100's), using WordPerfect is not much more friendly edlin.

About the only thing WordPerfect buys you in this environment is nice
printing support and some interperability with the DOS world.

I wish WP would wake up and smell the X.

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