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From: peter@cbnewsc.att.com (peter.pavlovcik)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Attention! - Windows Comm. Program
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.184035.9324@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 18:40:35 GMT
References: <1990Aug25.160852.25287@amd.com> <846@travis.csd.harris.com>
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In article <846@travis.csd.harris.com>, leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
> I am currently using WinQvt4.3 (off of cica.cica.indiana.edu) and as we speak, 
> the window occupies (while in 80x24) 1/2 of the screen's vertical space, & 3/4 
> of the horizontal space, all this while in LARGE mode.  In the small mode, the 
...
> 
> The program is Shareware ($50) and appears to work

Not for me it doesn't. When accessing a unix machine and trying to run
emacs (Montgomery's), I get a number of "black boxes" scattered across
the screen, although the screen looks OK overall.
I played with it for a while, but could not make it work. The standard
Win3.0 terminal emulator DOES NOT DO THIS (at the same speed) and
works just fine. Except, of course, takes up the whole screen.
Also wn100k emulator works just fine, but again, it only uses
a large courier font. So the problem seems to be in WinQVT.

In case someone thinks of a possible fix, here are a few facts:
1) no characters appear to be lost or mangled,
2) in every case, the boxes seem to "overwrite" only whitespaces,
3) symptoms are independent of speed (110 baud and 9600 baud) and
   of whether flow control is on or off,
4) comm parameters are 8bits + 1 stop, no parity
5) TERM=vt100 both on the host and in the WinQVT,
6) there seems to be some relationship between the terminal control
   characters and the black boxes -- there is always whole bunch
   of them at the beginning of the file and around tabs.

So I'm still looking for a 24x80 dumb terminal emulator,
			Peter Pavlovcik, att!iexist!peter