Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Rules!

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> > "xterm" is an X Window application that acts as a terminal emulator.
> > (so it's the cart, I suppose, or wheels).  The main advantage of Lynx in
> 
> I have been told that what I am trying to do is flatly impossible, but
> I can't bring myself to give up.  I have 50 nine-year-old PCs (486s w/
> 4MB RAM running MS-DOS 3.1) hardwired to a LAN.  I am not in a position
> to change the OS or hardware.  We (students and I) telnet to the Unix
> machine, which basically gives us vt100 emulation, although I have
> modified the vt100 terminfo entry to give color support.
> 
> I won't ask how, just if it's possible or not, to use "xterm" to display
> graphics on the physical terminals, which are not and cannot be connected
> directly to the workstation running X Windows.
probably won't work.  You'd need the X server to run on your local machine,
and that's 2.5M or so - running X in less than 8M is probably not worth it.
(And _that_ is with Linux -- multiply by 2-5 for anything that M$ has).

You can probably run Kermit in your environment, and (I understand) it does
support color.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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