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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: ProTERM
Message-ID: <4861@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 3 Jul 90 06:55:39 GMT
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In article <469@beguine.UUCP> Greg.Bear@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
>Does anyone know if the new ProTERM (v2.2) has corrected the problem of
>newline mode in vt100 emulation and generating a new line when a character
>appears in the 80th column?  For the first, specifically the <ESC>20h and
><ESC>20l vt100 commands need to be functional.  Right now it just recognizes
>the codes, but does not change anything.  On the 80th column wrap, according
>to other vt-100 terminals, when a letter appears in the 80th column, the
>cursor will not move until the next character is sent.  V2.1 generates a new
>line, which messes up my usage of vi and reading messages/.sigs that use the
>80th column.
>		Greg.Bear@samba.acs.unc.edu


	I know nothing about the vt100 specs themselves, but I spoke to
Greg Shaeffer (sp?) personally about this problem at AppleFest SF '88..
[When ProTERM 2.0 or 2.1 was announced]

	He said that ProTERM has two options, either go down a line [two
lines actually], or stay in the 80th column and keep printing characters
there until a linefeed is reached.  He said that that was the specs of the
vt100 definition.

	There was some explanation/excuse that it was Apple's firmware
at fault for the extra line... It seems to only bother me in vi though..

	Anyway, I've been using the televideo termtype since I gave up
on vt100 [for this problem exactly] and it works perfectly. I still use
vt100 on some bbs's...

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