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From: marquis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: more problems with ProComm Plus
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Date: 14 Apr 89 00:45:53 GMT
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In article <22942@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> cc1@cs.ucla.edu (Max Kislik) writes:
>Has anyone had the experience of trying to use VI on a host machine
>while using procomm or procomm plus on your PC.
>Does it so happen that when you move backwards inside your file using 
>esc and then h, the letters you moved over get erased?
>
>I am using the vt102 emulation on pcp, and I indicate that to the
>host computer when I log in by setting the TERM variable and doing
>tset afterwards.  
>
Are you remembering to 'unsetenv TERMCAP' as well as 'setenv TERM
vt100' (and even 'stty erase ^H)? If that doesn't give you a clean
implementation there is a better solution: switch to Telix, a far
better product in every respect.

           Roger Marquis
                            (marquis@qal.berkeley.edu)