🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello netters!

I've just become the proud owner of two HP 720 workstations.  As a
total neophyte system manager, I'm still in the process of setting them up
properly.  Right now I've got a small problem with the switch from
vt100 to tektronix terminal mode.  Our programs are relativley simple:
data is normally entered in vt100 mode, but occasionally, the output 
comes not as strings of numbers, but as a contour plot set up for tektronix
screens.  We use a plotting package -- common in the astronomy business --
called MONGO.  MONGO automatically generates the signals (what are they?) to
switch from vt100 to TEK mode.  My Macintosh terminal emulator (Versaterm PRO)
handles this fine.  But I cannot figure out how to open windows on the UNIX
workstation using X11 commands which will *automatically* toggle back and
forth between vt100 and tek mode as appropriate. 

Does anyone out there have hints as to how I could make this happen?  Or even
how to force a vt100 window into becoming a tektronics window for a 
short while?

Many thanks for whatever help or ideas anyone has about this.


Bruce Sams

Max Planck Institute Astrophysics
sams@cvxastro.mpa.ipp-garching.mpg.de