Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dvadura
From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10.x vt100 emulator
Keywords: stinks worse than SR9's
Message-ID: <13015@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 89 21:21:19 GMT
References: <976@lgnp1.LS.COM>
Reply-To: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
Lines: 39

In article <976@lgnp1.LS.COM> vskahan@lgnp1.LS.COM (Vince Skahan) writes:
>has everyone out there had the same horrible luck with the vt100
>emulator that I'Ve had ??? Ihave found that the emulator locks up, kicks
>into wierd graphics mode for no reason, and generates shadow characters
>and multiple characters for no reason.
yup, it sucks!  I haven't seen the exact symptoms you mention but, I have
had it lock up countless times, and can reproduce it easily.
I think it might actually be rlogin that hangs, but who's got time to chase
it down, and without source I can't be bothered.

>are there APR's for this piece of junk ??? does everyone see the same
>problems ??? will it ever work ???
I sent in a couple, never heard anything back.  It might well be that some
mailer somewhere just put the stuff into the bit bucket.

>the darn vt100 emulator is about the only significant complaint that
>makes everyone's blood pressure go up about 100 points in my internet of
>11 rings and 15 ethernet-only nodes (over 75 nodes in total)...
yup, hear hear.

Actually, I wanted to point out another incredibly anoying feature of the
emulator/vi combination.  If you are editing a file, and your DM window is
narower than the max line length of lines in the file, thereby forcing wrap
arround when the offending lines are displayed.  Either VI or the emulator,
not sure which, gets screwed up.  When I hit the 'j' key and try to go down
over a wrap around line the cursor gets lost from that point on.
It gets fixed by going to a new screen that does not have any wrap around
lines (via ^F for example).

I was going to send an apr for this, but my last two apr's seem to have gone
into space.  So I figure at least this way the non-sociable behaviour will
be known.

-dennis
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