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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: Televideo Terminal Query
Message-ID: <2699@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 14:07:29 EST
Article-I.D.: pegasus.2699
Posted: Fri Jan  3 14:07:29 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 05:25:12 EST
References: <5600003@uicsl> <546@varian.UUCP>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60545457-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
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Keywords: termcap
Summary: use terminfo to describe it

David Brown writes:
<	I think that the Wyse is more readable at 80, the tvi955 more readable
<	at 132 (this is subjective), but both are acceptable.  The tvi955
<	is not usable in vi (and other programs taht use termcap) at 132
<	columns as it uses 2 different sequences for cursor motion, depending
<	on the column number.

< Summary -- an excellent value for the money (I think we paid ~$400, vs. $525
< for the Wyse 50), but watch out for flakiness, and too bad about 132 column
< mode and termcap.

It is precisely for reasons such as these that terminfo was born. A terminfo
description is quite capable of handling different sequences depending on
the column number.

					Tony Hansen
					ihnp4!pegasus!hansen