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From: jms@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VT100 v2.9 problems.
Summary: Try changing the parity setting
Keywords: testing 0x1b vs 0x9b
Message-ID: <720@doctor.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 09:31:54 GMT
References: <7286@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <1989Oct22.131448.1113@agate.berkeley.edu> <832@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Distribution: usa
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <832@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) writes:
>In article <1989Oct22.131448.1113@agate.berkeley.edu> ofer@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Ofer Licht) writes:
>:I, too, had problems with vt100(v2.9).  It seems that it no longer
>:emulates a vt100 correctly.
>
>As I said in an earlier posting, I'm the author of 2.9.  Could you please
>e-mail me details of your setup and explain your problems in a little more
>detail?

This is what happens when I tried to run the new vt100 program with my old
s:vt100.init file.  I logged in to a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 4.0.3 (bsd).

1> vt100r29/vt100
Can't open rexsyslib.library - AREXX unavailable
   VT100 (V2.9 ACS 8910030) Terminal Window
tardis login: jms
password:
[1;24[24;1
tardis% reset
>[?3l[4l[5l[7h[8h
                 [g

This problem is that vt100 version 2.9 does not respond to any ESCape
sequences if "PARITY NONE" is set.  This puzzled me for a while, since all
the other characters come out OK (as opposed to alternate characters that
you would expect when the high bit is set.)  Typing right-amiga-O or
right-amiga-E makes it work better.  Version 2.8a does not have this problem.

I had a problem while trying to capture this info using the CAPTURE option
to RAM: - it created a file with carriage returns but no linefeeds.
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