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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Why does EVE switch the terminals WRAP setting off ?
Message-ID: <127rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 19 May 88 20:29:59 GMT
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Any screen handler needs to know the state of the terminal--wrap on or wrap
off, to know what the codes it sends to the screen will do.  The terminal
port's wrap and the terminal's wrap feature do NOT go together--if you have
one, you don't need or want the other.  They operate at different levels.
There is no easy way to detect the state of the terminal's wrap feature,
and the port's wrap feature is worthless except in line-oriented applications.
So the only thing to do is set the terminal to a known state (wrap off)
and assume that all other applications will do the same and not assume that
wrap will be on or off just because the user set it that way initially.

Hope this addresses the problem and helps.

                                        AMMON::RAY