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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: VMS Foreign terminal support TVIXXX
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 07:38:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 07:38:30 1987
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 > Quick question.  After this (or other termtable) file is created, how does one
 > USE it with VMS screen oriented programs?  On-line documentation doesn't seem
 > to say what to do, and I'm not sure where to look in the yard of fat orange
 > notebooks on the shelf.
The information is somewhere in the SMG manual.  What you need to do is:
	1) Compile the termtable definition you've created.  To do this:
		$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SMGBLDTRM
	2) Make the termtable definition available for use.  If you're just
	   an unprivileged user, or want to test a new definition without
	   putting other users at risk:
		$ DEFINE/JOB TERM$TABLOC directoryspec
	   where "directoryspec" is the directory in which you've just
	   built TERMTABLE.EXE.  If you're a system manager and want to
	   make the new definitions the default for the system:
		$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SMGMAPTRM
	   and reboot the system.
 > Another question.  What utilities is this useful with.  Does EDT know how
 > to use termtables?  MAIL?  TYPE/PAGE?  DCL command line editing?  User programs
 > that use LIB$SET_CURSOR(), LIB$CLEAR_SCREEN(), and the like?  VMS C Curses?
 > MONITOR?  Etc., etc.?
I'm not sure what all utilities make use of this.  I know that MAIL does
(my first experience with all this was in an effort to get mail to clear
my screen quickly when I was using a 300-baud dial-up non-DEC terminal).
I think that TYPE/PAGE does too, but you'll just have to experiment.