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From: ssimpson@trwrba.UUCP (Scott W. Simpson)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Bug in vt100 terminals and C. Itoh lookalikes
Message-ID: <1602@trwrba.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 18:10:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrba.1602
Posted: Fri Sep 20 18:10:27 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:33:35 EDT
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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I have found a bug (or bizzare feature) in the firmware for DEC vt100
and C. Itoh cit-101 and cit-101e terminals when wrap-around is set.  If
you type the string "ab" in the 80th column of the terminal the 'a'
comes out on the end of one line and the 'b' correctly comes out in the
first column of the next line.  However, if you type "a\t" where '\t'
is the tab character, the tab is ignored.  This seems to confuse
curses(3) which correctly assumes the tab will not be ignored.  I
suspect that vi(1) also gets confused with this problem when lines
greater than the width of the screen are edited.
-- 
		Scott Simpson
		TRW Electronics and Defense Sector
		...{decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax,ucivax}!trwrb!simpson


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