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From: bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: strange behavior from the new Winqvt (4.65) ??
Message-ID: <1991May21.205538.4717@rti.rti.org>
Date: 21 May 91 20:55:38 GMT
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In article <1991May19.171201.4651@isc.rit.edu> cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes:
>				my problems with winqvt 4.65 are completely
>different from that of the previous poster's ( which i have not seen ) .
>specifically : [...]
>
>o the screen length is not recognized by VMS , which assumes a 25 (  24 ? )
>  line screen no matter what it is sized to .

I can't comment much on winqvt (I don't use it), but I can make a few
comments about using terminals on VMS.

The typical DEC terminals attached to a VMS system didn't have a
report that would return the number of lines on a screen until
recently (the VT420).  Versions of VMS before V5.4 do not recognize
the VT420;  moreover, even V5.4 does not request the appropriate
report from the terminal.  (As far as I know the only time that
VMS gets the page length right is when you are running from a
workstation - but my understanding of winqvt is that it doesn't
look like a DECwindows server, so it doesn't get the page length 
right).  On all other terminals VMS assumes a page length of 24.

Maybe they will fix this in V5.5 of VMS, but even then VMS probably
won't ask for the page length unless your emulator reports that it's
a VT420.  

You can override this in your LOGIN.COM file by adding a line like
$ SET TERM/PAGE=48 (or whatever).  Note that EDT will still assume 
a 24-line screen, and even worse will set your scrolling region to
24 lines when it exits (grrr !! grrrr !!).  But you should probably
use TPU anyway, it will use a big screen properly, and is much faster
and more powerful.  Emacs should also work but I'm not so sure it 
would be any faster than TPU ;-).

Good luck -

						Bruce C. Wright