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From: ado@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: A Question About the Infamous VT100 Line Wrap Bug
Message-ID: <7328@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 20:51:13 EST
Article-I.D.: elsie.7328
Posted: Sun Feb  8 20:51:13 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 04:49:32 EST
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: A better solution

> The only complete solution for the VT100 is to NOT specify "am", and if
> you leave auto-wrap enabled (as most people do) then set "co#79", so
> that the VT100 firmware bug is not triggered.

A better solution, in use here at elsie for three years now:
go ahead and leave auto-wrap enabled (as most people do), but *don't* set
"co#79".  Instead, set "ti=\E[?7l:te=\E[?7h".  Doing this arranges things so
that programs that do cursor motion turn off auto wrap when they start up
and turn auto wrap back on when they finish.

The advantage of the ti/te approach as opposed to the co#79 approach:  you get
an 80-column terminal rather than a 79-column one.
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