Xref: utzoo comp.databases:7925 comp.unix.sysv386:2338 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!ziggy!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Vermont Views Keywords: user interface Message-ID: <274AD9FB.218D@tct.uucp> Date: 21 Nov 90 19:48:11 GMT References: <4999@rsiatl.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386 Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 27 [ Followups to comp.unix.sysv386 ] According to jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond): >It do not work through curses and instead they invented a "better idea". This complaint is valid. Why invent /etc/vvtermcap when /etc/termcap is 90% of what you need? Although that last 10% includes most of the neat display features, like color escape codes. >You are pretty much stuck with vt100/ansi terminals and the AT386 >terminal as implemented in ISC Unix 2.2 does NOT work. These complaints are unfounded. We use VV under SCO Unix, and I've used it under SCO Xenix, and the console is in fact the place where it works best. And if the behavior isn't right for a given terminal, just edit /etc/vvtermcap; no biggy. >Plus the screen update is not smart so you end up with really slow >screens over communications lines. Yes. I wonder about programmers who clear the screen by displaying 2000 spaces! No, I take that back -- I don't wonder about them. I worry that they might be writing nuclear power plant software next. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II