Tracy -

The "xhpterm" and "freevt3k" programs though free, are not GPLed, therefore
you are at the mercy of the author/owner for updates or fixes.  Unfortunate.

Mandriva distribution seems to be a niche distribution.  I suggest you try
Ubuntu and maybe Fedora as better distributions for you.  Another popular
distribution is openSUSE, and the commercial distribution Xandros has many
fans too, but I have used neither so far, so no personal experience.  I
believe you are making things harder for yourself by choosing Mandriva, but
if you have a reason to do so, then so be it.

Even using the Linux basic terminal capabilities with the "terminfo"
database, you can have a 132 column toggle, line drawing character set,
support of MPEX's redo comma, and more that 24 lines (or even 200 columns).
I don't know about QEdit's visual mode.  Its been a few years, but there
were a few changes I had to make to the hp terminal definitions in the
"terminfo" database to get things working smoothly in character mode, but
that was only 2 to 4 hours worth of fiddling around.

HP has done work on HP terminal emulation on the HP-UX side.  This should
work fine on the HP3000 side, since it is not a server change.  A quick
glance seems to indicate that most (all?) of the changes are to the
"terminfo" database (i.e. quick and easy -- probably take longer to read
than implement).  If you do a "man terminfo", you will see just how powerful
the terminal interface is in Linux, and that all kinds of terminals can be
emulated.

- Pete

On 4/10/07, Johnson, Tracy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I've had 3 weeks of using ./xhpterm  freevt3k on Linux and it sucks.
>
> - I miss being able to expand to a 132 column screen.
> - I miss the line-draw character set (shiftin/shiftout chars).
> - I miss the ability to use redo comma in MPEX.
> - and I miss the ability to use Visual mode in QEDit.
> - I miss the ability to pull down the window and get more than 24 lines.
>
> So I'm looking at installing Wine for my Linux distro so I can get
> QCTerm back.  (Too bad there is no native Linux distro for QCTerm.)  I'm
> using Mandriva and I found a Wine distro for it.  After downloading I
> get a wine-0.9.30-mdk.i586.rpm file.  I'm guessing MDK files are
> Mandrake specific.
>
> There is plenty of FAQ on how to install Wine, but for Mandrake files I
> just I cannot find (or it is just deeply buried somewhere) on what(tf)
> to do with an .rpm file once you have it.
>
> Any clues?
>
>
> Tracy Johnson
> Measurement Specialties, Inc.
>
> BT
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