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From: medin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit and vt100
Keywords: VT100 kermit
Message-ID: <1794@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 21 Feb 90 16:07:47 GMT
References: <1108@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <950@studsys.mu.edu>
Reply-To: medin@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Ted Medin)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <950@studsys.mu.edu> jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer) writes:
>My main concern with Kermit's emulation is that it doesn't implement
>the vt100 "slide the rest of the line over" command (sorry, don't know
>what it's really called).  When I'm using Kermit and vi, if I insert text
>in the middle of a line, what I type goes right over what's there, and
>I have to do a screen redraw to get the screen to reflect the true
>state of affairs.

 Interesting i just ran 3.86 on a //e+ hosted by bsd 4.3 unix. Tried the
vi editor (prefer jove, it does windows :-) ) and had no problems doing
inserts without your problem. Does your host know you are a vt100? What
kind of a host are you talking to?
73, ted
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