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From: ng@pur-phy (Nicholas J. Giordano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tektronix +DNET again
Message-ID: <1107@pur-phy>
Date: 15 Apr 88 02:23:26 GMT
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Reply-To: ng@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Nicholas J. Giordano)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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I am the person who grafted tek4014 emulation onto vt100(2.6), and
I am now in the process of repeating the graft with vt100(2.8).  Actually,
that part is done, and I am now working on a few improvements in the tek
emulation.  One change which is finished is support for the font of your choice,
toghether with a small "topaz" like font which approximately matches the
size of one of the tek4014 fonts.  However, the program will now use any
font which you supply.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I will post it to the sources/binaries
groups, and would also consider any new features or fixes people might
suggest.

As for the problems with tek, I have noticed that it sometimes drops 
characters, and believe that it is some sort of bug with flow control.
The problems become very severe when another program with equal or
higher priority is competing for time.  A definite "offender"
is the title bar clock/memory monitor.  When the other programs are
run at a lower priority, the problems go away, although the residual
bad characters may still come from a problem like this.  I'm sorry
I haven't been able to pin the problem down, but tek works pretty well
for me, and life is short.

Nick