Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!hase
From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: UniTerm 2.1a wishlist
Message-ID: <1499@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 16:29:34 GMT
References: <186@forty2.UUCP> <2866@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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In article <2866@brspyr1.BRS.Com> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
>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. 


I'm using a Plessey VT220-kompatible Terminal that does the trick.

On switching to 132 colummns you get spaces to the right,
and on switching to 80 colummns the lines get truncated

hase
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