On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Eric J Schubert wrote:
 
> Instead of dink'n around with VT3K protocol - why not wait until MPE 5.5 for
> inbound telnet protocol - then edit a standard telnet (VT100 terminal
> emulation) Unix client and switch VT100 escapes for HP term escapes?
 
  Hmm... if MPE had a 'real' termcap and a 'real' terminal line setter,
such as getty, then the terminal could perhaps be autoset anyways...
 
  Being from the dark ages of MPE/V I would not know for sure, but
shouldn't MPE/POSIX at least support a "set term" or "eval tset" function to
autoset the terminal from within the shell (worst case) ?
 
> Another option I heard about was some kind of Sun software that runs any
> Microsoft windows application - like excel - on a Sun.  Maybe NS/open would
> work as well...?  Maybe someone has done this?
 
  Not just Sun... the SGI platform supports SoftWindows, which allows
MS-Windows apps to be run on the X Windowing SGI platforms, much in the
same manner as Macintosh SoftWindows.
 
Daniel Kosack
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