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From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Zterm .85
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.062032.28693@amd.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 06:20:32 GMT
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In article <1990Sep24.224214.25073@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>I just grabbed a copy of Zterm .85 from Sumex.  I am using the
>vt100 emulation on a Mac IIcx talking to a Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1).
>I frequently have a problem with Zterm stripping the first
>character of the line, adding a line feed, and then giving me
>the rest of the line.  I've tried all kinds of things to get
>this to stop with no luck.  Is this a common problem, bug,
>"undocumented design feature?" :-)

It's a tab bug. You can work around it by expanding tabs to spaces
with 'stty tab3'. Better fixes welcomed.

Mike Ching