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Subject: Screen manager
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 14:48:08 EST
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From: iwm@icdoc.UUCP
Subject: Screen Manager
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Does anybody know DEC's policy regarding the screen manager (SMG$...)
Its a fine way of supporting terminals, but are they going to use it?
I wish that TPU used it - does anybody know why not ? I guess that 
half of TPU must be a re-implementation of SMG for ANSII only terminals.
What about SCRFT/SCRSHR ? I recall that somebody talked about making
SCRFT call SMG, the problem seems to be making SCRSHR think the terminal
is an FTn rather than a type recognised by SMG, it seems possible but 
would require a patch to SCRSHR. 
Does anybody have a list of which programs use:
a) Hard coded escape sequences  (ick!)
b) SCRFT
c) SMG