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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tek 4105 Emulators for Amigas
Summary: VLT Tek bug fixed in version 3.649
Message-ID: <5403@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 06:17:19 GMT
References: <5273@ut-emx.UUCP> <269@gtss.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <269@gtss.UUCP>, chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
> In article <5273@ut-emx.UUCP> mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun) writes:
> )
> )VLT is a very good public domain vt100/tek4105 emulator for the Amiga,
> )				.
> )				.
> )                               .                        I've had no
> )problems with Tek4010 plots.
> 
> I have.  When using it with DISSPLA drivers on a number of host machines,
> VLT constantly drops out of graphics mode and spews characters all over
> the screen.  This does not happen with real 4010's, or with VT240's
> emulating 4010's or with A-Talk or with the PD version of vt100 2.6
> with tek support added (aka version 2.65).

I forwarded the message about the VLT Tek bug to Willy Langeveld (some users on
mfenet had some problems also) and got this reply:
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          Yes that problem was reported to me by Jim Crotinger. It is fixed in
the latest version (3.649, now available on BIX). Jim sent me a uue'd capture
file demonstrating the problem. Apparently some host (for no good reason at
all, I might add!) pad some records out with NULLs or even ctrl-C NULL
combinations. Since none of the hosts around here do that, I'd never noticed.
VLT used to assume something really bad had gone wrong and reset itself to
alpha mode. Now it ignores spurious control stuff in vector mode and ought
to have no more problems on funny hosts.
          No, I don't have usenet access, so if you'd be kind enough to
forward this to the people that had problems, I'd appreciate it...
          Also I was glad to see someone find the answer to the reported
filerequester-opens-on-Workbench problem. Indeed, VLT requires ARP 1.1.
     
          Thanks for the information!
                 Willy.
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Willy can be reached on bitnet as WGLP09@SLAC.BITNET (that's how I
reach him, anyway).  The file requester problem he alluded to occured
if you ran vlt with an older version of ARP -- file requesters came up
on the wrong screen (Workbench).

Maurice LeBrun, Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  Internet: mjl%fusion.decnet@chpc.brc.utexas.edu	Phone: 512-442-7636 H
     or	    mjl%uta.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa			       512-471-6149 W
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