Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: VT_100 emulation on SUN 2 Message-ID: <68857@sun.uucp> Date: 19 Sep 88 03:51:53 GMT References: <40@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com> <38131@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 10 > I thing shelltool or cmdtool, if you made them 24 x 80 exactly, > would emulate VT100 closely enough to work with VMS. Doubtful. The terminal emulated by "shelltool" (and by later versions of "cmdtool" when running in "full-screen" or "Disable Scrolling" mode) is an ANSI X3.64-compliant terminal, just as a VT100 is; however, both terminals have a number of "private" escape sequences (for which X3.64 makes provisions) that are INcompatible. One such escape sequence is the "set scrolling region" escape sequence on a VT100, which doesn't exist in "shelltool"; instead, the same sequence does something quite different (it sets the number of lines by which the screen scrolls up). Unfortunate, but true.