Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MGHCCC.HARVARD.EDU!smith%eri.DECnet From: smith%eri.DECnet@MGHCCC.HARVARD.EDU ("ERI::SMITH") Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: SET TERMINAL/MESS_UP_SETTINGS Message-ID: <8706120323.AA09180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 15:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8706120323.AA09180 Posted: Wed Jun 10 15:30:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 13:05:01 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "ERI::SMITH" Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 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. Did it always do this, or is this a VMS 4.5 innovation? Should I be irritated by this, and, if not, why not? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel P. B. Smith ARPA: smith%eri.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu Eye Research Institute CompuServe: 74706,661 20 Staniford Street Telephone (voice): 617 742-3140 Boston, MA 02114 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."--Thoreau ------