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From: nat%DRAO.NRC.CA@VM.TCS.TULANE.EDU (Natalie Prowse)
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Subject: Emacs over Terminal Server.
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Date: 17 Jan 91 03:04:00 GMT
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Hi, I have an unusual problem.  It appears that when we use GNU EMACs
over the (VISTA) terminal server, with a DEC VT220, connected to a
DECSTATION 3100, certain control characters get garbled or misrepresented.
First, outside of emacs, the user gives the command:  set term = vt200
(vt220 does not seem to work very well at all).  Then, upon entering
EMACS, everything looks OK, but C-x C-c gets C-x C-@ instead, and
C-spacebar gets nothing (it is supposed to set the mark).  C-c on
its own sets the mark.

This is just a new problem, so perhaps there
may be other things that aren't working, but we have just discovered
these 2 problems today.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Emacs
appears to work fine, if you are on a VAX, and RLOGIN or SET HOST to
the DECSTATION.  C-c works fine outside of EMACS....

-Natalie

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Natalie Prowse
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory,        nat@drao.nrc.ca
National Research Council,                       (604) 497-5321
Box 248,
Penticton, BC, Canada
V2A 6K3