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From: troy@plod.cbse.unsw.oz.au (Troy Rollo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100 bugs for OS 10.2
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Date: 27 Jan 91 21:59:16 GMT
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This problem has existed for quite some time, and is caused, largely, by the
insistance of the vt100 emulator to use the same pty every time - if it gets
mangled, you can't use vt100 anymore.

A dirty fix, is to get a copy of a terminal emulator I wrote in '89, which
was posted to comp.sources.misc (I think), under the title "vt100 emulator"
or something similat, even though it emulates a custom terminal design, rather
than a vt100. This program keeps searching through ptyp0-ptypf for one that
works.

That was a primitive version of the program. I had another, far more advance
version ready for release which was annihilated due to a gross
misunderstanding (and the whole campus knew about it that day!), so you will
probably want to improve ont it (I only use the machines remotely now, so it
has no interest to me).In particular, you will probably want it to search
q0-qf too.

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