Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!pinkas From: pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: vt220's and elm?? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 89 20:00:37 GMT References: <880@psc90.UUCP> <5160@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Distribution: usa Organization: Corporate CAD, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 37 In-reply-to: rob@PacBell.COM's message of 30 Apr 89 15:21:34 GMT In article <5160@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes: > In article <880@psc90.UUCP> rem@.UUCP (Bob Mahoney?) writes: > +We are having one problem: as a mixed computing enviroment, we have all > +flavors of terminals. Elm seems to mis-paint a DEC vt220 screen, almost > +as though it can't see the first couple of tabs. (It all goes thataway > +->>!) > + > +If we setenv TERM vt100, all is well, regardless of the actual setting > +of the 220... > > Since when you lie that your terminal is a vt100 everything goes okay, > and since ELM gets *all* its information from your termcap/terminfo > entry, either: > > 1. One field that differs between the two entries is wrong. > > 2. One field that differs between the two entries is not > handled properly by ELM. I suspect that the VT220 might be set up to emulate a VT100. DEC, for some reason, build backward compatibility into most of their terminals. Many of our users set their VT220's up as VT100's. This allows them top use the F11, F12, and F13 keys as ESC, BS, and LF, respectively. In VT220 mode, you have to use the control kwy with [, H, and J. -Israel -- -------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinions, and in no way represent the opinions of Intel Corporation. In no way should the above be taken to be a statement of Intel. UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!cadev4!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%cadev4.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas@cadev4.intel.com