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Subject: VMS output
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 14:20:00 EST
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	 I've been having a problem with output on VMS C.  I am in the
	 process of porting a graphics program from UNIX to VMS.  My
	 problem concerns the driver for a Raster Technologies' Model
	 One/10 terminal.  

	 On UNIX, everything works fine.  I send lots and lots of ASCII
	 characters to the terminal and it interprets them as hex
	 digits and I get pretty pictures on the screen.  

	 On VMS, I send lots and lots of ASCII characters to the
	 terminal but the computer decides that no one would really
	 want to output so many characters without a newline now and
	 again so every 256th character is a newline.  The Model One
	 indiscriminately tries to interpret this as a command and then
	 tries to interpret the following characters as arguments to
	 the command.  I get nasty error messages from the terminal and
	 messed up pictures on the screen.

	 I tried to setbuf(stdout,NULL) but it doesn't work.  I also
	 tried a lot of ugly kluges including sprintf(...)ing the
	 commands and write(...)ing the string to stdout.  No luck.

	 I would be grateful for any ideas or solutions.

	 Rick Taft
	 Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories
	 105 College Road East
	 Princeton, NJ 08540

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