Ah yes xhpterm works a lot better!  

(I was despairing whether linux users could play MILLBORN on my
Empireclassic machine.)

Now I'll have to update it's web page to include xhpterm as a solution.

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:24 PM
> To: Johnson, Tracy
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] FreeVT3K
> 
> 
> Tracy -
> 
> On 3/6/07, Johnson, Tracy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Gonna miss block mode for this!
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Try 'xhpterm' then!  Get it from the same source.  There was 
> a problem with spacing from the underlying 'ncurses' library. 
>  The maintainer of 'ncurses' was working on fixing the 
> problem last year.  I assume it is fixed now.  If not, here 
> is his contact info:
> 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> Thomas Dickey <[log in to unmask]> 
> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
> 
> HP made some fixes to the old 'curses' program to make it 
> work flawlessly.  Since 'ncurses' (new curses) uses an MIT 
> software license, I will assume that 'curses' did also, which 
> means that HP is not required to share their fixes, even 
> though they are using 'curses' free of charge, the benefit of 
> GPL software.
> 
> Hopefully, you will find 'xhpterm' works flawlessly in block 
> mode for you.
> 
> - Pete
> 

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