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From: weber_w@apollo.COM (Walt Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100 under sr10
Message-ID: <43d9403f.10b48@apollo.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 89 17:18:00 GMT
References: <8906122022.AA18993@umix.cc.umich.edu> <12184@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: weber_w@apollo.COM (Walt Weber)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <12184@well.UUCP> rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) writes:
>I have vt100 working under sr10.1 with no problem.  However, why is it
>that you cant scroll up/down a vt100 window the way you can any other
>window.

Display manager pads (transcript pads, view pads, etc.) are actually a
'view' into a disk object, and hence can be repositioned.  They are not
repositioned by embedded escape sequences written out, but by operations
which are similar to lseek/fseek/ios_$seek.  The vt100, on the other hand,
is a graphic buffer which DOES respond to escape sequences in the output,
but then does not respond to the repositioning.

>(I guess you cant scroll a real vt100 either

I did it once, when reaching for a large manual.  Damn thing scrolled right
off the table!  :-)

> ...Richard Friedman           rchrd@well.uucp                      

...walt...
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