Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm .cmd files
Message-ID: <49086@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 14:10:00 GMT
Organization: malkaryotic
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hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) <4759@darkstar.ucsc.edu> :
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| Also, I'd like to know what terminal emulation mode Procomm users use.
| I've been using VT100, because it's pretty standardized.  I've noticed
| that I have to set automargins off, because of the behavior of some UNIX
| programs.  Do the other modes treat this better?  Does Procomm Plus
| handle the last column wrap correctly?  (For those of you who don't
| understand what I'm referring to, on most real terminals, when a
| character is printed to the last column of a line, the cursor does *not*
| move to the next line until the next character is received.  UNIX
| programs like vi and pagers often compensate for this by adding a CRLF
| after that character, which on Procomm, since it wraps immediately,
| causes a blank line.)


From something I read/heard, part of the problem is that real vt-100's
don't actually do automargins (at least some real vt-100's, early units
perhaps).  Some Unix termcaps include tricky sequences to get around
this, some just go with it; some hardware and software emulators add
this ability, some don't; so that things don't always match up correctly.
I have it working right *for me* by using a personalized termcap entry
for Procomm2.4.2 along with Line Wrap On.  If I felt like experimenting
I'd try (again) to move up to v2.4.3 and sort out that line wrap business
again --- having that break has kept me from upgrading from v2.4.2 to
2.4.3 or "Plus".