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From: coburn@clo.enet.dec.com (John T. Coburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Handshake 2.20c questions
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Date: 9 Jun 91 21:41:56 GMT
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In article <2997@public.BTR.COM>, thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes...
:In article <2996@public.BTR.COM> thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:
:>[...]
:>I have "real" DEC VT100, DEC VT102, DEC VT220, and DEC VT340 terminals at my
:>office and can see how they are definitely braindamaged.
:>[...]
: 
:What I meant by that statement is that if the terminal is IN, say, VT100 mode,
:then that is how the terminal should report itself.
: 

Agreed.

:The concept of "preferences" seems to be lost at certain companies.
: 
:If the user wants to be in VT100 mode, an application (or operating system)
:shouldn't second-guess the user's intents, especially if the user is coming
:in over a network from a system that still thinks the user is on a VT100 but
:when the user returns to the first system the terminal was "gratuiously" set
:by VMS to a VT200 which now breaks applications on the first system which
:still believes the terminal to be in VT100 mode.   (Huh?  :-)
: 
:The "SET TERM/INQUIRE" shouldn't alter the user's preferences as it presently
:does.

Also, agreed - SET TERM/INQUIRE is braindamaged in several ways.
: 
:Of course, what could one expect from a company that's more than three years
:late with TCP/IP support in its DECnet product?  (Re: DECnet Phase V promised
:in 1988; this is now 1991 and rumors suggest Phase V "may" be available by the
:end of this month (we'll see)).

No comment. :-)

: 
:With increasing frequency over the 25+ years I've used DEC products, I'm drawn
:to the conclusion that DEC isn't always dealing with a full deck.  :-)
: 
:Apologies to my friends and acquaintances who are employed by DEC; the real
:"problem" is rooted back east in MA in the office of a certain individual.
: 

Probably more than one individual.

:Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]

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