From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: SCRFT handling of attributes on braindamaged terminals
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.523
Posted: Mon Dec 27 00:53:38 1982
Received: Mon Dec 27 06:30:21 1982

>From EPS@MIT-MC  Mon Dec 27 00:47:33 1982
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Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow  <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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The SCRPKG "PUT" functions take an optional argument which specifies
which display attributes (Bold, Reverse, Blink, Underline) should
apply to the given text.  It seems that most of the terminals I use
that support attributes don't have a separate attribute memory for
them and take up a space on the screen to start a "field."  DEC VT100s
of course don't have this problem.  Should I simply ignore attributes
for losing terminals, should I position the cursor one to the left
first (what do I do in column 1?) or what?

					-=EPS=-