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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Sysline for VT100?
Message-ID: <684@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 05:30:11 GMT
References: <22407@tis.llnl.gov>
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In article <22407@tis.llnl.gov>, mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:
| Pardon me if this is a completely Joe question, but I've been asked to
| check out whether a VT100 (real or emulator) can be made to work with 
| sysline(1), via a special termcap, some sort of initialization 
| string, etc.?
| 
| My understanding was that VT100s (we don't have any real ones here,
| only various emulations on PCs, Macs, and non-DEC terminals) don't
| have an addressable, writable status line, but I'm willing to be
| corrected.

It can be faked with a special init and a scroll region, but it leaves you
with a 23 line terminal.

terry@wsccs