Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Bugs in VMS? Message-ID: <9229@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 04:41:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9229 Posted: Mon Jul 22 04:41:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jul-85 07:31:21 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 32 From: H}vard Eidnes Does anyone agree that the following are bugs in VMS? Has any of these been corrected, or pointed out before? 1) The character ^B is echoed by the VMS terminal driver when the user is running DCL. I usually run on a terminal that interprets this character as "video off"! 2) SMG does not handle the line-drawing capabilities in a terminal- independent fashion. SMG assumes that all the line-drawing chacter strings are of length *one*, and that a "shift in" and "shift out" sequence is used to control the selection of character sets. We have a lot of terminals that does not use this strategy, instead a "single-shift-2" character set selection sequence is used. (Selects alternative char. set only for the next character.) So we tried to define "begin_..." and "end_..." as empty, and the individual string capabilities for line drawing as three-character sequences. BUT SMG REFUSED TO PRINT ANY OF THESE! We found out that all went OK if we defined all the line-drawing string capabilities to be of length one. (But then we were not able to select the alternative character set for the line-drawing characters...) 3) SHOW SYSTEM now outputs 80 characters on each line. Some terminals will wrap on the next character, regardless wether this is or not. Thus, the print-out from SHOW SYSTEM gets double-spaced... (And such was not the case with SHOW SYSTEM in the previous version of VMS (3.7).) I (in my naivity...) thought that SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=79 might alleviate this problem, but such was not the case. (SHOW SYSTEM does not check the terminal width...) Is it not possible to restrict the printing width to 79 chars?