Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!im4u!oakhill!abair
From: abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo BSD4.2 dumb terminal stty -tabs problem
Keywords: DOMAIN\IX BSD4.2 stty tabs
Message-ID: <1109@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 16:06:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Posted: Tue Jan 19 10:06:28 1988


Hi, I hope some of you more experienced Apollo Domain/IX users can help
me with a terminal setup problem I am having.  I have an ADDS Viewpoint
terminal at home, that I currently use with our SUNs at work.  I have
customized a TERMCAP environment entry that is done at login time, I
will include it below.  This has been working fine for about a month now.
Before I describe the Apollo problem, some possibly important information.
The connections I make to the machines at work are across the ethernet
from a dialin security system, so the terminal is not on a serial port
connection to either the SUN or the Apollo.

The problem I am having on the Apollo has to do with tabs.  My terminal
sends a ^I for tab, but does nothing with it when it receives one.  So
on the SUNs, the stty command is setup with the -tabs option, which 
converts the tab into the appropriate number of spaces.  Well on the 
Apollo, it comes up with stty tabs, so I put in .login to issue stty -tabs.
Heres the real problem, the Apollo just ignores the -tabs.  From various
tests I have tried, it only seems to recognize the erase & kill options,
which I do use succesfully..

To indicate how far I have gone in trying to get around this, I wrote
a c program to use ioctl and tty(4) commands to try and set the -tabs
option.  This seems to work inside the program, but -tabs is reset to 
tabs as soon as the program exits.

Here is the TERMCAP entry:
setenv TERMCAP 'av|viewpoint|addsviewpoint|adds viewpoint:\
:cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:\
:am:le=^H:bs:li#24:co#80:cm=\EY%+ %+ :cd=\Ek:ce=\EK:nd=^F:\
:up=^Z:cl=^L:ll=^A:kl=^B1:kr=^B3:kd=^B2:ku=^B":kh=^A:\
:so=^N:se=^O:us=^N:ue=^O:is=^L^O\E0`:vs=^O\E0P:ve=^L^O\E0`:\
:rs=^L^O\E0`:'

Any help would be greatly appreciated, since trying to edit a makefile
with vi is currently impossible.  The Apollo I am using is an DN660
running Aegis 9.2.3(Yes, I now that is old) with Mentor 5.1.  If any
other information is needed, please Email requests directly to me and
I will also post the information.

Alan Bair

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