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From: dudevoir@bernoulli.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: zterm emulation problems
Summary: Zterm won't handle editing in vi or emacs?
Keywords: vt100
Message-ID: <23@bernoulli.stanford.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 15:50:38 GMT
Sender: dudevoir@bernoulli.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir)
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I have tried out both versions 0.75 and 0.8 of Zterm and have found
some problems in the vt100 emulation. Neither version will handle
editing in vi or gnuemacs.  0.75 scrolls the entire screen after 
a cr in the command line (bottom line of terminal) and then fails
to redraw the screen so the cursor positioning is not correct.
In version 0.8 moving the cursor to the left in the editors causes the
characters that it is passing over to be erased from the screen, but
not from the file being edited.

Has anyone else had problems of this nature or am I doing something 
wrong?  I am using the standard vt100 termcap entry on our sun unix
systems.

One other note: I have had some problems transferring files using the
zmodem protocol at 19200.  I consistently get errors of the type 
ZRPOS 0 . At 9600 everything goes well.

Disclaimer:  I think this is a very nice product. The inclusion of 
the zmodem protocol is a big step forward in shareware. I hope 
these minor problems can be corrected.  If so I'll be convinced 
to send in my registration.

Glen   dudevoir@bernoulli.stanford.edu