Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Subject: Re: vi fails under MKS in DesqView Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 05:21:23 GMT Message-ID: <1991Jan30.052123.16108@mks.com> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Distribution: na References: <328@dcsun21.dataco.UUCP> In article <328@dcsun21.dataco.UUCP> mcphail@dataco.UUCP (Alex McPhail) writes: >I have MKS Toolkit, and DesqView (the latest version). When I >try to run 'vi' in MKS Toolkit while I am in a DesqView window, >it starts to run, then it beeps forever. You must set the DESQview window to indicate that the application does not write text directly to the screen and not to virtualise text and graphics. The beeping is caused by vi's clear screen sequence which writes SPACE followed by \007 (character and attribute screen bytes). It does this for each screen location. If you watch the cursor, you will notice that it moves before each beep. This will take a long time to complete since the BEL \007 will take a while to `print'. DESQview is somehow converting the screen writes to "printing". This will be fixed in the next release. -- Andy Toy UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!mks!andy Technical Support Phone: +1-519-884-2270 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. Phone: +1-519-884-2251 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9, CANADA Fax: +1-519-884-8861