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From: nar9077@cec2.wustl.edu (Nelson Atwood Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Microterm 5510
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Date: 12 Mar 91 02:44:22 GMT
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It appears my first post of this message failed so here is a resubmission.
If this is a duplicate message  Ooops... 
> I just picked up a Microterm 5510 to use on my SYSVR3 (Esix) system.
> As I understand it, this terminal is supposed to be a VT-320 compatible.
> I've been setting my term environment variable to vt220, lacking a vt3xx
> entry in termcap or terminfo.
> ...
> The terminal is doing some bizarre things - I'll type along just fine,
> then go into, say, Emacs, and the terminal characteristics will change
> and I'll see garbage.
> Bill Heiser

There are some configuration issues worth checking.

	1) After setting up the terminal, did you save the settings?
	   A hard reset issued by a program may destroy the settings.

	2) Did you set the device attributes response to VT220?
	   If the host requests the terminal type and it receives a 
	   response that it does not recongize it may go into "dumb"
	   teminal mode.

	If the previous suggestions do not help, please call Microterm
customer support at 1-800-325-9056.

Nelson Roberts					Microterm
My view are not necessarily those of my employer.