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From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: net.term,net.wanted,net.periphs
Subject: Super Terminal =~= HP 2645
Message-ID: <709@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 21:53:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 21:53:57 1983
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Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio
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You're right, your super-terminal does seem a lot like an HP 2645, except for
ONLY quality 8.  Quality 7 is already present in these terminals, in a
somewhat different way.  Suppose you typed:

	% grep coleslaw /user/divt/word

but you meant to give the standard path name for the online dictionary.  On
your 2645, you do the following:

Move the cursor (using the up, down, left, right, home keys) to the beginning
of the incorrect command line.  Delete the '%' with the DELETE CHAR key.
Move the cursor to the 'e' in 'user' with the -> key.  Delete the 'e'.
Move over to the wrong 'v' in 'divt' and type 'c'.  Move to the end of the line
and type an 's' after 'word'.  Press the down key, type your UNIX KILL
character, press the up key, and press the ENTER key.

If you don't like the business in the last sentence, you can push the BLOCK
MODE key before doing anything, and release it before pressing ENTER.
This method is also good if you have a lot of corrections to the stuff
on the screen.  This is not necessary at all if all you want to do is
delete extra characters or simply reenter a line.

To reenter an entire block of stuff, get rid of everything but the block on
the screen while BLOCK MODE is depressed, and then press ENTER without
leaving BLOCK MODE.  This will enter everything on the screen.

Note that your terminal must be set up so that the arrow keys and insert/delete
character don't echo to the computer, so that BLOCK MODE is engaged in the
down position, and so that a BLOCK MODE ENTER means page, not field.

Why do you want quality 8 anyway?  Termcap programs are the only ones who
would care what your terminal does with tabs, and if you do a

	% stty -tabs

UNIX generates spaces instead of ^I for you anyway.
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Dave Decot	..!decvax!cwruecmp!decot