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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: UniTerm 2.1a wishlist
Message-ID: <2866@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:27:10 GMT
References: <186@forty2.UUCP>
Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY
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From article <186@forty2.UUCP>, by poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole):
> mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqrkl, Richard K. Lloyd writes >Wishlist for

>>6) Retain the screen display when switching from or to 132 column mode,
>>   rather than clearing the screen and homing the cursor. 
> 
> Wrong! No VT1XX, VT2XX or VT3XX compatible terminal works this way,
> all clear the screen and home the cursor. The command set of D*C
> compatible terminals has no provision for dealing with mixed length
> lines (I can think of all kind of perversions you would have to deal
> with, if you want to have a terminal with this feature).  

Sorry Simon, but I use an HDS2200 (VT-220 compatible from Human Designed
Systems), that *does* retain the screen on size change.

Actually, it's an option in the setup menus.  When enabled, it does this:

	Change from 80 to 132 --> extra 52 columns get spaces

	Change from 132 to 80 --> lines get truncated at 80 (no wrap)

It seems to work just fine.  The software may not deal with it particularly
well (editors, etc), but that isn't the terminals problem, nor should it
be.

I kind of like the feature, but then again I don't switch screen size
all that often.
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