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From: ivancich@utah-cs.UUCP (Eric Ivancich)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: VT100 Terminal Program
Message-ID: <3909@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Aug-86 18:53:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3909
Posted: Sat Aug 30 18:53:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Aug-86 21:54:16 EDT
Reply-To: u-jmolse@utah-ug.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Lines: 34
Keywords: VT100 Terminal

[line eating bug fodder]

	The VT100 version 2 is a really wonderful program.  The only problem
that I have not seen mentioned and corrected, is that it has a hard time
doing the full screen 48 lines.  When I start it in this mode, it scrolls at
48 lines only when the text being printed originates from the Amiga.  If it
receives text from a host, it scrolls at 24 lines.  It sounds like something
is hard wired to 24 lines instead of the size parameters.

	I have successfully uploaded and downloaded with xmodem, but tend to
have errors on about every 10th block when uploading, and almost never when
downloading.  This seems to be consistant even when hooked to different
machines.  I think there is a bug hidden deep somewhere in the xmodem upload
routine, since I have seen this in every version of Montier's terminal
program that I have ever compiled.  It acts like something in the buffer is
being re-used before it is finished with it the first time.

	Any help with these would be greatly appreciated.  The next step for
a terminal emulator would seem to be one that uses a termcap file to know
what kind of non-graphics terminal to emulate.  The graphics would be a bit
trickier.  Any word yet on a Tektronics graphics terminal emulator?

Disclaimer:  You will be hard pressed to find anyone who supports anything
that I say, let alone get them to admit it. Even me.

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John M. Olsen

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