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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JRComm
Keywords: vt-100 woes, snap woes
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.190834.5837@agora.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 19:08:34 GMT
References: <26d4687e-28c7comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.xei.com> <26de13c9-28c7.5comp <26dee7cb-28c7.6comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <26dee7cb-28c7.6comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM) writes:
:>Resp: 5 of 5 About: 
:><> [Dennis Francis Heffernan] (*Masked*@tronsbox.xei.com)
:>
:>	('Course, I've gone back to VLT again, anyway, cause of its rexx
:>interface and somewhat more stable VT100.)
:
:
:I just switched to VLT here because it has the ONLY usable Vt-100 I have
:found on the Amiga (useable in this case = UNIX COMPATIBLE).
:
:It is fast and stable.  The AREXX interface is nice as well.

	I'm running into a couple of problems in using the latest VLT
while connecting to our XENIX machine at work. I'm using a hacked 
Pearl.font to provide for IBM style graphics and an ANSI termcap
that gives me eight bit display to see all those pretty line borders.
With the old version (8.428) everything worked fine, as long as I
had a rexx: assigned and ARexx running (without that, I'd get annoying
windows popping up all the time telling me that various scripts wouldn't
run.) With this new version, I have two basic problems... The first is
that even with REXX: assigned and ARexx running (1.14, running under 2.0)
I get the windows. Typically it's during an attempt at beep and the
window tells me it doesn't know what ~srx means... The second problem
is that when the border gets drawn around my screen (on the XENIX side,
using ANSI sequences for cursor positioning) it shifts the top line
or the border left about ten characters. It's enough to make the menus
that OSAS uses in their business management software unusable. I'm
trying to keep from going back to the old version of VLT, but I may
have to if I can't get this fixed.

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