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From: forceten@dalcs.UUCP (Safeguard Business Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.os.vms
Subject: Emacs bizarreness or bizarre VMS?
Message-ID: <3064@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 22:29:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: dalcs.3064
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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	I'm having trouble using GNU Emacs Version 18.41 under VMS 4.?.
    I have a terminal which is a superset of a vt100, but VMS thinks it
    is a vt100.  I have the termcap file in my own directory, and it is
    being read properly by emacs.  My initialization file is also being
    read properly by emacs.

	But no matter what I do to the termcap file, the system/emacs always
    acts as though it assumed I have only a vt100.  If I do

	$ SET TERMINAL/DEVICE_TYPE=FT1

    and set up a termcap with ft1 and vt100 as aliases everything works.
    This termcap is the only one for vt100 in the file.  But if I do

	$ SET TERMINAL/DEVICE_TYPE=VT100

    the damn thing reverts to being a moronic vt100 again!  Is VMS looking at
    the output and translating it into stupid equivalent sequences?  If so
    how do I get rid of this behaviour?   And No, I can't check for vt100 in
    my LOGIN.COM file and switch to ft1, because sometimes I do use the real
    thing.

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