Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!ritcv!mpk9172
From: mpk9172@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TPU: Key-name question
Message-ID: <81@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 00:55:01 GMT
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From:	RITVAX::PAP9552      "Footprints in the sand..."  7-JAN-1988 13:19
Subj:	RE: tpu help

Someone posted a message questioning about tpu.  I forwarded the message
to someone a little more knowledgeable about tpu then myself, and this was
his reply:

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First what must be done is to set the current buffer to not translate the
control characters:

set(text, current_window, NO_TRANSLATE);

That should allow you to use all of the characters for the terminal.  But be
careful, it means that control characters will affect you terminal...

As to how the terminal operates with soft characters.  TPU does not reset
the terminal so that any soft characters go away, but will send a backward
question mark when a character cannot be printed.  This should solve most
of your problem...

                        Peter Portante
                        Rochester Institute of Technology
                        RITVAX@pap9552  - bitnet address