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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: strange behavior from the new Winqvt (4.65) ??
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Date: 17 May 91 13:43:57 GMT
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I just picked up the latest winqvt from cica and notice the following:

1) window takes full width of a 1024x768 screen, but yet can only 
   manage to display 69 columns !

   Using (S)etup,(T)erminal,(W)indow to the small font, the window 
   shrinks to 3"x4" (with apparently 80 columns) ... but it is quite
   unreadable.

2) The font now looks like a photocopier enlarged 9pin dot matrix 
   printout.  

   This is true whether or not the font distributed win WinQVT 
   (vt220.fon) is placed in the windows\system directory or not.

   In the default.vt the is a definition "font_size=LARGE" ... I 
   tried SMALL, but that made no difference.  There were no words 
   (that I saw) referring to this in any of the 3 .WRI documents in 
   the zip file, so I am not sure what the options are ...

3) The colors selected (foreground=white, background=green, bold=yell)
   result in a reverse video of black on black 

4) vt200 emulation seems to have picked up additional bugs (compared 
   to the 4.51 version I tried last) in that vi editing on a line 
   (like character deletion) will not correctly update the line ... 
   a ^L is required after modifying each line 

5) When in vi I do something "bad" (requiring the visual bell) then 
   the character size shrinks to fit a 3"x4" (vs the original 6"x10")
   screen ... a ^L restores "normal" (dot-matrix) characters.

6) Setup modifications made through the menu system ARE NOT saved in 
   the current .VT file ... manual changes do appear to be read at 
   the next invocation.

Note: All the above problems were not observed when I tried 4.51 ... 
anybody run into problems with this newer version?
leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com         	Leo Hinds       	(305)973-5229
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