Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!vax5!ut6y
From: ut6y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: DesTerm Major Fxxkup
Message-ID: <18458@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 89 22:02:48 GMT
Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Reply-To: mshappe@vax1.cit.cornell.edu (The Dread Pirate Mikey)
Organization: Not in my apartment, there isn't.
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While I rather like DESTERm and have not had nearly as many problems as some, I did discover a MAJOR hole today when I used it for the first time to call a VMS system, namely, this one (CRNLVAX5/vax5.cit.cornell.edu).  When VAX5 sent the usual terminal-checking escape codes (ESC_Z and so on), my keyboard COMPLETELY locked up, including the Menu keys (CTRL_STOP).  The result is that I have to disable VT100 emulation to log in, then switch it back on, which is a bit of a pain.

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