Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!unido!sbsvax!vieta!bof From: bof@vieta.math.uni-sb.de (Patrick Schaaf) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs and terminals - HELP Keywords: vt320 tatung viewpoint Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 12:14:56 GMT References: Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de Lines: 18 I wrote: >Hello World! And again... Looks as if I didn`t play hard enough the first time. >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). Well, somehow all emacsens seem to insist to change the terminal line to 8bit, no parity. This confuses the terminals. The remaining (not-so-interesting-for-me) question is: Why does emacs think he`s smarter? Bye Patrick