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Subject: MacTerminal Termcap
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 03:51:13 EST
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From: Christopher A Kent 
Jim Budler at AMD recently posted a new termcap entry for MacTerminal;
it was nice because it didn't perpetuate the delays that a vt100
termcap has. Unfortunately, it didn't include specs for the
insert/delete capabilities. 

I've added them, and it all seems to work. It's MUCH faster than what I
was using before, a modified vt132 from jkf@berkeley. The only problem
I've seen with this is in vi -- when inserting characters as fast as
the Mac can send them, the somebody loses track of what the screen
should look like, and it gets confused. This happens when the repeat
speed is set to 3 or 4; I use 2 and don't have any problems. The
characters all seem to get there, cause a refresh shows the correct
information. Emacs works fine under the same circumstances.

I was really sad to have to add a delay to the insert line
characteristic (al), but had problems with emacs losing the first
characters on lines when scrolling. It may be possible to squeeze out
delays elsewhere; I didn't play with it very long. If you do squeeze
more out, please let everyone know. 

Cheers,
chris
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