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From: dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Problems using ZTerm and . . . vi
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Date: 8 Apr 91 11:28:32 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.082505.12520@milton.u.washington.edu> tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) writes:
>
>	I've gone back to Zterm because I really like using zmodem for 
>downloads.  However . . .
>
>	Its vt100 emulation in vi is just awful.  Is there some set of 
>parameters in the program or in my .cshrc I can change to make the emulation
>work better?
>
>
>-- 
>				Tom Maddox
>			tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu
>	"It is imperative to write invulnerable sentences."  --  Hugo Ball


I've never had it have problems with vi before.  but I DO have 2 major
problems with ZTerm.

(1) Our site uses QTerm at login to determine what terminal you use.
Most of the time, it works OK.  However, some time, it identifies my
terminal as a tvi926 or something like that; whn I try to type in 'vt100'
to correct it, the cursor starts freaking out, all this garbage comes on
the screen, and I have to hangup andcall back with White Knight, which works
perfectly.

(2) When you scroll in JOVE, the highlightig o thebottom line gets wiped out
Of course, this is just cosmetic, but I'm a stickler for cosmetic appear-
ances! :)

Which brings me to another point, and a question. White Knight handles
the highlighting beautifully when you scrolll in JOVE, except there is
only one problem.  If your cursor is on the last line of the display (i.e.
right above the highlighting), and you have to backspace, one pixel of the
highlighting gets wiped out, from the position of the cursor to the right
side of the screen.  This gets really ugly after a very short time.  What
am I doing wrong, and is there a fix for it?  (i'm using version 11.12 of
WK)
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