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Subject: foreign terminal support
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 20:06:16 EDT
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From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA


Anyone else having trouble with ScrFT in 4.x?  Mine fails in various
ways with various system programs.  I spent a couple of hours today
trying to figure out why Show Process/Continuous was getting an access
violation for one of our terminals but not another.  It finally turned
out that in one specific situation, if ScrFT returned a string longer
than 5 characters, the caller coughed an access violation.  Does this
ring any bells?  I can't believe noone else had this problem, but I
tracked it right out of my ScrFT, so it doesn't seem to be my problem,
but on the other hand, I can't find any programs where it works worth
anything.  I figure they must be trying to get me to convert to SMG$.

So.....does anyone really know which system programs use the SMG$
stuff?  I can't tell if my TermTable is bogus or if no DEC programs use
it yet (4.1) and I'm too lazy to write my own test programs.