From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: PHONE Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8037 Posted: Fri Jul 16 22:17:40 1982 Received: Sat Jul 17 04:56:52 1982 >From TIHOR@NYU Fri Jul 16 22:17:26 1982 Did you set the terminal type properly? I was assured with great vehemence by various people in the VMS developement group that it had been written using the "foreign terminal" package so if you set your terminal to the appropriate /FTn type where n is whatever number your system manager assigned to the type of terminal you use all should be well on any terminal with reasonable screen addressing. Of course that means that someone has to have written the FT code for your terminal type and installed it at your site. No big deal but some people are very lazy. Still if you only have ~8 common terminals to worry about then even writting all the FT code yourself is almost cretainly easier than writting a talk type program yourself. Off hand the coding for a shared writable global section seems simplest and should require almost no original work since shared data is a fairly well understood problem domain.