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From: zapantis@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca (Nik Zapantis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECwrite on a SPARCstation ??
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.210408.16750@sol.UVic.CA>
Date: 18 Apr 91 21:04:08 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.160216.10304@mprgate.mpr.ca>, wilsenac@mprgate.mpr.ca
(Henry Wilsenack) writes:
|>
|>   We are having problems getting DECwrite V1.1 to display correctly on a
|>SUN SPARCstation.  The cursor always is 2 characters in *front* of where the 
|>text is actually being inserted... Very annoying!  DECwrite works fine when
|>being displayed on any DEC VAXstation or DECstation (VMS *or* ULTRIX).

|>
|>   Any other suggestions or comments would be appreciated...  Thanks!


We also had similar problems with the DECWRITE cursor on an NCD terminal. We
also had problems displaying equations properly. Our solution?? we just bit the
bullet and bought VT1200s :-(

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