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From: jdi@psuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Vnews bug
Message-ID: <424@psuvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 10:11:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 10:11:08 1984
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Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ.
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Two interesting things I just found out about with virtterm (the terminal 
driver for vnews, which is really quite nice)

	1:  It appears to have some problems with some termcap entries that have
		a 'ho' (home) field.  On a z29, especially, it likes to dump core by
		completely messing up the stack.  This may, however, be a termcap
		problem.  A quick fix is to take out the 'ho' entry, which prevents
		virtterm from trying that route of optimization, but I hate kludging.

	2:  Unless I am sadly mistaken virtterm simply will NOT work with terminals
		that have a 'cs' (set scrolling region) entry.  (Also, it's sort of 
		interesting that the vt100 termcap entry DOESN'T have this)
		What happens is apparently that virtterm calls tgoto at some time with
		what it thinks is the 'cs' string.  Well, termcap thinks differently
		and prints 'OOPS'. (at first I thought it was the z29, that was REAL
		strange)

	Anyway, does anyone have any fixes/suggestions for these problems?

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