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From: bof@vieta.math.uni-sb.de (Patrick Schaaf)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs and terminals - HELP
Summary: Emacs does not like them
Keywords: vt320 tatung viewpoint
Message-ID: <bof.677768690@vieta.math.uni-sb.de>
Date: 24 Jun 91 13:04:50 GMT
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Hello World!

I`m running a couple of Sun workstations here, 3/80 with SunOS4.0.3.
I recently installed some newer version of emacs.

Connected to the Suns are some older terminals, type Dec VT320 in vt100
emulation mode and Tatung TVT-4200D in ADDS ViewPoint emulation.
Using the appropriate termcap entries for those terminals (and also
trying the always present vt52 emulation) all of them fail running
Gnu Emacs, MicroEmacs and some older proprietary version. No problems
with other programs - vi, nn, irc etc. run fine.

BTW, the symptoms are the same for both types - some readable characters
between masses of upside-down question marks (for the vt320) or pound
signs (for the tatung).

What can I do against this ? Thank you in advance

  Patrick