| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I have a PMAX and I put a bunch of control characters in the /etc/motd
file (serves the same purpose as SYS$ANNOUNCE on VMS systems).
It looks fine when I cat the file or login via the net, but when I
login at the console, the /etc/motd gets displayed in the session
manager window and the control characters are not interpreted.
Is there any way to get this to work?
I looked in /etc/ttys and the last line seemed to suggest that the
session manager has terminal type "none", which would explain the fact
that the characters aren't interpreted. However, when I changed the
"none" to "vt100" and did a kill -HUP 1 and logged out and back in,
nothing had changed.
Any ideas?
T?
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| 1944.1 | SM Message window isn't a terminal... | COOKIE::KITTELL | Richard - Architected Info Mgmt | Tue Dec 19 1989 12:36 | 3 |
I'm pretty sure the message window is a simple text widget, not a terminal. Hence there isn't any TT driver code doing output interpretation of your text. | |||||
| 1944.2 | FROTHY::TATLOW | The Question | Tue Dec 19 1989 13:05 | 3 | |
Well, is there any way to *make* it interpret the characters?
T?
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| 1944.3 | SSPENG::KLEINSORGE | So sue me. | Tue Dec 19 1989 15:21 | 8 | |
Writing a filter for ANSI sequences is a cake walk, it doesn't have to
be a terminal. If all that they wanted to do was strip out the data
that wasn't meant to be printable, then with the ANSI parser from
DECterm (it's small, and portable "C") and a little additional logic...
it's an afternoons work.
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| 1944.4 | easy | OXNARD::HAYNES | Charles Haynes | Thu Dec 21 1989 00:05 | 4 |
It might be possible to turn the SM message window into a terminal emulator
window. Also an afternoon's work (assuming you have sources...)
-- Charles
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