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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ProTERM problems
Keywords: proterm
Message-ID: <1990Jul29.045805.27797@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 90 04:58:05 GMT
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Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center
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I'm having problems using ProTERM's scrollback buffer.  It seems that
when in vt-100 mode (maybe others as well, I don't know) when a line is
exactly 80 columns long, the program generates an unwanted blank line and
continues on the line after the blank one.  (It shouldn't line-feed
there.)  I've learned to deal with this by creating a 79-column vt-100
driver so that I can use vi without switching word-wrap modes, but while
reading usenet messages, I want to scroll back and re-read parts of a
message or capture it for reading offline, and I am annoyed that the line
after the aforementioned blank line disappears from the scrollback
buffer, and can't be recaptured other than re-reading the message and
using the copy buffer (which also captures that --More-- prompt).

I wouldn't be so mad except that some Star Trek parodies I captured using
this method I discovered had missing lines due to this bug.  Is there a
reason why this happens, and is there a patch for it?
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