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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: MS Works on a T1000SE
Keywords: T1000SE Works
Message-ID: <14283@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 18:38:43 GMT
References: <564@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> <4193@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <4193@accuvax.nwu.edu> domeshek@crown.ils.nwu.edu (Eric Domeshek) writes:
>The program itself is pretty nice, though I really haven't made extensive use
>of all its facilities.  I wish my machine ran a bit faster (but of course the
>SE does).  One complaint so far: I believe the COMM section offers vt52 and
>ANSI terminal support; ANSI is supposed to be like vt100
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>-Eric
Eric -
     Actually, yes and no. ANSI and the VT100 set are very similar, but have
certain very important differences. VT100 has some commands that ANSI does not,
and vice versa. Their common commands are plentiful enough so that you can
>OFTEN< use one for the other (VT100 for ANSI is a better attempt than ANSI
for VT100) but not always.
     For example; VT100 has no colour control commands, as the VT100 was
a monochrome terminal. (Generally, however, the VT100 emulator will be kind
enough to "eat" the colour codes for you so they don't show up on the screen.
This does NOT apply to extended colour commands.)
     More importantly (and, I'd bet, causing the problems in your case: the
VT100 had a command to delete a line anywhere on the screen, and move all 
lines below (if any) up one line. ANSI (in terms of the type of MS-DOS ANSI
you mean - I think FULL ANSI might have such a command) does NOT support this.
If you were on an ANSI terminal and the system sent this command, as it ould
in EMACS, you would certainly get some strange results.
     Anyway, I suspect this is causing your problem. Try coming up with an
ANSI termcap and see if things don't improve.
                                                         - R'ykandar.
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