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From: jeff@umbc3.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SET TERMINAL/MESS_UP_SETTINGS
Message-ID: <360@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 07:57:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 12 07:57:53 1987
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In article <8706120323.AA09180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> "ERI::SMITH" <smith%eri.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu> writes:
>I was recently surprised to discover if a VT240 is set for "VT100 mode,
>VT240 ID," the command
>
>	$ SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE
>
>will change it to "VT200 mode, 7-bit controls."  The analogous thing
>happens on a VT220.
>
It has always done this, atleast since 4.0. It annoyed me enough, since
I typically needed backspace and the escape character to add a line to
my login.com file which sets the terminal back once SET TERM/INQUIRE
changes it. I got it from the VT240 programmer's manual. It is 
			<ESC>[61"p 

Jeffrey Burgan            Systems Staff          University of Maryland
ARPA: jeff@umbc3.umd.edu                         (301) 455-3631