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From: johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: rn in pads
Summary: various peculiarities
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.200106.4131@hobbes.mdc.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 20:01:06 GMT
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Organization: McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Company
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I've recently gotten rn runnning on our Apollos, but I've noticed a few bizarre
things if I run it from a DM pad:

    o   When it starts up, it appears to go into a full VT100 emulation mode. 
Unfortunately, this means that I can't do nice things like cut&paste to an edit
pad, or scroll backwards.  Can this be disabled?

    o   The real problem, however, is that under some conditions rn doesn't exit
properly - it goes back to normal pad mode, but the prompt doesn't appear and
the input window doesn't accept any input.  CTL-Q fixes the problem, but there's
obviously something getting hung up.

Does anybody have solutions to these problems, or should I just resign myself to
using xterm for news reading?

[BTW, this is actually a cleverly disguised test of my news system - my
apologies if something screws up.]
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John A. Breen                           |  johnb@hobbes.mdc.com
McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Co.   |
Tel: (314)234-4341