Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!gfink From: gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Apollo Termcap Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 20:38:23 GMT References: <7755@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of California at Davis Lines: 25 In-reply-to: glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com's message of 4 Oct 90 14:30:26 GMT In article glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) writes: > >In article <7755@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, >gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink) writes: >> How do people get around this problem? I want to run emacs on an >> external machine! Without the emulator crashing every time I exit, or >> without phantom characters printing to the screen. > Do an end run around the problem: don't use the buggy vt100 emulator. >Switch to X and use an xterm, which has reasonably good vt100 emulation. > -- >Glenn P. Parker glenn@bitstream.com Bitstream, Inc. > uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street > BIX: parker Cambridge, MA 02142-1270 I don't want to use the buggy vt100 emulator, but due to political problems here (we're working on it!) we don't have X, and it is likely that we won't in the near future. If somebody had a good manual for apollo /bin/csh pads, what control sequences are useful for them, etc., that would be sufficient! --George -- George Fink | gfink@{clover,iris}.ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis | ucbvax!ucdavis!{clover,iris}!gfink