Article-I.D.: gondor.1649
Posted: Thu Mar 21 20:10:09 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Mar-85 04:56:44 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ.
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I first want to say that I appreciate the people who wrote to me and
thanked me for the fixes that I discussed a while back.  Let me share
a few more discoveries.

If anyone is changing their termcap to fix the pinned 80th column, you
will also need to reset nowrap before you enter vi.  Otherwise, if your
file has lines longer than 80 characters, your display will show the
text above the lines where they actually are (referenced by vi).  It
is simple to just set up a shell command to first echo ESC[?7l, then
call vi, then echo ESC[?7h.

Sometimes, the display is thrown off and displays mostly block graphics.
I have been able to fix this by toggling from vt100 to 3101 and back to 
vt100.  Sometimes this pins the keyboard to numeric, besides the fact
that it is very awkward.  Does anyone have a better fix?

I've also run into a serious problem that causes my computer to completely
lock up between the time the Crosstalk screen appears and the time they 
print their "clever" message.  All I can do is reboot.

I'd be interested to hear from others about their experiences with Crosstalk.  
I definitely think it's a good program, but the bugs are certainly annoying.
Has anyone communicated with Microstuf?  

Fred Hollander