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From: kgallagh@digi.UUCP (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo Termcap Question
Message-ID: <375@digi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 18:52:10 GMT
References: <30@thoreau.nsc.com> <4876bedd.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kgallagh@digi.UUCP (Kevin Gallagher)
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In article <4876bedd.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> weber_w@apollo.HP.COM (Walt Weber)
writes: 
> 
>Unfortunately, there is no method available for permitting the vt100 
>emulator to support a "scroll-back" facility as is available in the
>display manager transcript pad.  Since your article mentions xterm, I 
>will assume that you have it available for your users, and would encourage 
>you to base a solution on replacing vt100 with xterm for your users.  
> 

Actually, there IS a method of "scroll-back"; well, sort of.  While in the
vt100 emulator, SHIFT-F8 is a toggle which enables/disables the echoing of all
vt100 window contents, which have SCROLLED OFF THE TOP OF THE WINDOW, into a
carbon copy pad.  If you want to look at anything that scrolls off the top of
the vt100 window after you have entered SHIFT-F8, just press the CMD key and
enter cc at the DM command prompt.  The carbon copy pad will appear and you
can scroll back and forth as you like.

Information erased from the vt100 window by clearing the screen, is NOT
entered into the carbon copy window because it did not SCROLL out the top of
the window.  Otherwise, the feature is quite useful.  This works with the
vt100 emulator supplied with 10.1 and later.  I am not sure about 9.7, but I
suspect it works there, as well.


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