Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!newbery
From: newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Using an ANSI emulator with VMS editors
Message-ID: <13328@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 3 Mar 88 20:39:30 GMT
References: <2058@bsu-cs.UUCP> <719@ddsw1.UUCP> <190@wsccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery)
Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 16
Summary: X3.64 says nothing about only 24 lines

In article <190@wsccs.UUCP> terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry) writes:
>[...] You may also notice that ANSI terminals have 24 lines and
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Nonsense! Where in X3.64 does it say this?
>[...] There is a terminal database on VMS.  It's called
>SYS$SYSTEM:SMGTERMS.TXT.
Which insufficient software (especially DEC's) uses - which is the nub
of the problem.

The rest of your summary seems fair to me.

-- 
Michael Newbery

Internet: newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz
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