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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: SnoTerm
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Date: 12 Mar 91 20:05:24 GMT
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... stephens@latcs1.oz.au (Philip J Stephens) writes:
>... @ (The Unknown User) writes:

>> 	ProTERM's vt100 is all screwed up though. If a line goes over
>> 80 characters, it does one of two (user definable) things:
>> 
>> 	1) keeps printing EVERYTHING at the 80th character. This is a
>> very naughty thing.. Even though people should put returns at the end of
>> lines, sometimes files don't have them, and it pisses me off when 
>> PRoTERM does this.

>  All VT100 terminals will do this if auto-wrap is not turned on.  So
>it's not a ProTERM problem.

Yes, in fact it is a standard feature in vt100, and the host system can
change auto-wrap status via a standard vt100 ESCape sequence.  Like
<ESC>[?7h turns on auto-wrap, <ESC>[?7l turns it off.

ProTERM has a built-in way to do it, but that is priviledged information
to those who have a manual.

>> 	2) ProTERM puts an -extra- return in the output to your screen
>> (that is, there is an empty line between the last line of text and the
>> continuation).

>  This shouldn't happen.  But I've seen some very old terminals do the
>same thing...perhaps the writer of ProTERM had one of these yucky
>terminals to work with :-)

This is a problem with ProTERM v2.1.  V2.2 solves this problem.  You'll
have to get ahold of InSync software to get the upgrade.  Be prepared to
prove ownership.

><  Philip J. Stephens               ><  "Many views yield the truth."        >
><  Hons. student, Computer Science  ><  "Therefore, be not alone."           >
><  La Trobe University, Melbourne   ><  - Prime Song of the viggies, from    >
><  AUSTRALIA                        ><  THE ENGIMA SCORE by Sheri S Tepper   >

There are other problems with ProTERM's VT-100, but they have been
discussed quite a bit already.


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